Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps...this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.

I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.

I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.

Our planet is a tiny atom in god's kingdom.

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.