I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

Nobody else can make the sound you make.

As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.