Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh.

To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.

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

Technique itself springs from play, because we can acquire technique only by the practice of practice, by persistently experimenting and playing with our tools and testing their limits and resistances.

Whispered words can be devastatingly effective.

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 are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.