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!

There is no mystery " that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.

I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, because it was just an old house that we fixed up, and I love the old house.

I have a long-standing relationship with Autism Speaks. I've been supporting them for many, many years now.

Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

My parents have been really supportive right from the very beginning.

And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that.

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.

You can't choose up sides on a round world.

I do love brash pop music. It's fun.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.

I don't know of a more noble, a bigger deal as a filmmaker than to be a YouTube filmmaker.

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.

I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.

Theres no other love like the love for a brother. Theres no other love like the love from a brother.

Kids can learn a lot by seeing things rather than reading it.

Because I've lived a risky and unconventional life, I don't often struggle for subjects to write about.

We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show.

I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.