If a creative person has a sense of humor, a sense of style and a certain amount of stubbornness, he finds a way to do what he needs to in spite of the obstacles.

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

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

Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else on earth.

Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine.

There is not ultimate breakthrough; what we find in the development of a creative life is an open-ended series of provisional breakthroughs. In this journey there is no endpoint, because it is the journey into the soul.

With too little judgement, we get trash. With too much judgement, we get blockage.