I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.

Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.

Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.

I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what he's doing, even though I don't always like to listen to it. It's like living in a house where everything's painted red.

We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing.