Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real.

Whispered words can be devastatingly effective.

The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling and frustrating, are in fact the growing edges. We see these opportunities the instant we drop our preconceptions and our self-importance.

There are only people doing their imperfect best at doing their imperfect jobs

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

Creative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because "normal life" is rigid and traumatized.