You never know what you find once you really get going.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

You never know what you find once you really get going.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

It's not really that I didn't want to perform at all. What I didn't want to do was try to put together a band, rehearse, on my own. You know what I mean?

I'm so far removed from live playing any more.

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.

I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along thats the only way you can create music. If you dont feel any emotions its not going to happen.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

Panamanian boxing is unique - it's very musical. It's almost like a dance. It has a lot to do with being in the Caribbean and with salsa. When you see a Panamanian boxer, there's a style. There's a playfulness in the way you throw the punches.

I'm an athlete, so I can dress down with the best of them. I can throw on t-shirts and sweats with the best of them.

I never chose to be in Russia, and I would prefer to be in my own country, but if I can't make it home, I will continue to work very much in the same way that I have... What happens to me is not as important; I simply serve as the mechanism of disclosure.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because of all the things granted us by wisdom none is greater or better than friendship.

I find it so all-encompassing when acting that there's no room for anything else when you're in it; you're just locked into thinking about it all day, you go to sleep with it, wake up with it, and when I come back, I really need time to recover.

Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it.

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

I loved all the other movies, and I loved all the other movie stars, but I was very aware of the fact that I didn't look like Marilyn Monroe - although I still wanted to be Marilyn Monroe. Then Josephine Baker popped up, and she wasn't the maid - she was the star of the show. To me, it was mind-blowing.

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

There aren't as many roles, and I think there's a lack of openness in casting an Asian character in a leading role or unless they're a stereotype. It's been hard. I've been able to play some non-stereotypical roles, which is great, but I have a lot of Asian actor friends who are struggling.

Mrs. Obama has a hug - a sincere and friendly embrace - that has become familiar to countless supporters from coast to coast. And when she talks to you, she focuses all her calm attention on your face.

In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

It just seemed like an unattainable dream to go down to Los Angeles and to land a professional working, acting gig on a show that you really love with a character you really connect with. That doesn't seem possible; that seems insane.

There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.

I'm not old-fashioned.

The scriptures bid us to send forth our light and our truth and when children carry within their hearts the torch of hope, they learn the darkness yields not only to man-made fire, but to starlight, to the rising sun, and to the light of the soul.

What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.

I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.