Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

My bag is approaching something and taking it to another place. Like words-you take a word and by the time you've finished with it, you milk it and you go through the emotion of what it is, what it means there and then.

The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And that's what I was getting sick of-the whole analyzation thing.

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.