It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.

Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.

We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.

Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.

Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.

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.

You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff