Your humanity is your instrument.

Music is interior decoration.

You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.

It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it.

Composing is improvisation slowed down.

No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.