Music is interior decoration.

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'

The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.