Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

When we are on tour we also take chances.

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

If 10 percent is good enough for the Lord, it ought to be good enough for Uncle Sam.

Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.

I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.

But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.

The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

I have been Princess Leia exclusively. It's been a part of my life for 40 years.

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.

As a former member of JWA's management team, and more recently as a director, I am delighted to have the opportunity now to take the reins of leadership of the company. I look forward to working with JWA's management team to chart the course and execute the plan to further strengthen and broaden JWA's leading product franchises.

Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.

There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together.

People don't really know about 'Neighbours' in America, and if they have heard of it, it's only in the context of 'Oh, sure, that's what Guy Pearce was on', or Kylie Minogue.

I think you get better as you get older.

The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.

Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

I was good. I probably could have gone to the NFL. I just hated practice.

I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.

Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain “ your life will never be the same.

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.