There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.

It's the emotion...each word has got a connotation and symbolism and the thing is finding what's behind the word-what meaning it has and what emotion. I'm really into vocal repetition as a definite art form.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.

If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.

Men come, men go, all things remain in God.