I am reactive.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.

I don't research anything.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

For me, playing is about playing with other people.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.

Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.

In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

I am reactive.

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.

You reap what you sow Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

What we are doing is we are putting in significant training into the people we have currently to upgrade their skill resources, upgrade the presentation resources, and upgrade what we expect from them in terms of not business as usual.

I usually have one project I'm focusing on but often have many other projects in the back of my mind for several years.

I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.

If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew.

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

I was fat, so I have the right to tell other fat people not only that they should lose weight, but also that they must lose weight because I was fat, and I lost weight, and I saw the difference.

I have no message or answers to social questions.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

I am a great motivator. I have struggles in my life, and the only way I can push through them is to motivate others. It really is quite selfish.

I go where the sound of thunder is.

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

I believe Huckabee should have run again in 2012. Everyone was begging for him to do so. He beat Romney in 2008, and I believe he would have done it again in 2012.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

I never felt I was incapable of succeeding because I felt confident I could always learn what I needed to know.

The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.

Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.

It's a weird thing because I've been single at the time when I've been successful. That's good and bad. Good, because you meet lots of people, bad because your privacy is infringed, so it's harder to develop things.

My legs are actually my favorite feature.

If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.

You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.

One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.