I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.

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

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

I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.