I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.

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.

Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.

[Being alcoholic] you're either too high or you're too low. I mean, I was always looking for the bell to ring. I was always waiting for that bell.

Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time.

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

If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?