Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.

Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.

Did you know you would become as successful as you have? Hell, no. But you know what? You were prepared, baby.

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.