Only America makes you feel that everybody wants to be like you. That's what success is: Everybody wants to be like you.

I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.

Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.