You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

I smoke a little pot, every day, and I'm healthy as can be.

There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate...but with music it's just music.

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

I've always been into improvisation.