When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed.

After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.