I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.

I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school. I'm pretty sure I remember it being assigned, and I generally did the reading. But I don't remember having a reaction to the book, even though I loved literature, and other works made a lasting impression on me at that age.

I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

When I used to go into bars people would try and fight me. Women would punch me 10 years ago or put cigarettes out on my arm or my face. But it doesn't seem to happen any more. They show us a lot of love.

I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van Dyke Show.' They said it looked like fun.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

It’s hard to be humble when you are as great as I am.

I heard last year at insert names birthday party they had to set up mirrors to make it look like a crowd.

I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

I come from a background where you don't really talk about yourself much.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.

Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.

I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A.

The real demon in my life is my father.

The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doesn't really matter where you went to high school. In a funny way, all high schools are the same.

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

I have to respect her family, and until they come and say, 'We're ready to do an Aaliyah album,' then I don't really want to come and try to get into that because that's very sensitive.

London sort of wore me down. I can't cope with the winters!

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.