How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.

They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

Mutual respect is so important because as soon as it disappears in relations between you and the next person, there's trouble.

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.

I don't have to be what nobody else wants me to be and I am not afraid to be what I want to be.

Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?

It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.

Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.

I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.

I'm not a Washington person.

I am lord of myself, accountable to none.

Like the changing leaves of fall, My little boy is now a man.

When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

I get unhappy doing things that I'm not passionate about. Because I feel like I'm squandering this incredible gift I've been given to finance films. As soon as my name alone was enough to make this happen, I vowed to myself that I was going to work with directors who were changing cinema, doing something important, you know?

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.

I will never repeat something verbatim on the air unless I know it's accurate. And when you go to the source, sometimes there's a better story beyond the original story. That happens all the time.

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

It makes me feel so amazing to know there's people out here that support me and follow me on Twitter and watch my shows on YouTube and come to my concert, so I'm very thankful.

I make fun of guys when I like them. I act like I'm 10 years old. I do it as a test to see if they can laugh at themselves. If they get sensitive, then it's like, 'Um, this isn't going to work.'

For a while I was thinking about moving the mouse with my hand.

I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.

'Drive' is definitely an inspiration because it was a film that was able to use what would normally be considered cheesy, kind of bold, electronic music choice and pull it off in a mainstream way.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.