At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.

At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

According to the White House, the president's proposed 2016-2017 spending would add - get this - $62 billion to the deficit.

American colleges are now increasingly reflexive in maintaining politically correct dialogue over controversy, and some say universities have lost sight of education's ultimate purpose.

Anyone who magnifies the power of a television talk show is very unrealistic.

Conflicting views and contrasting ideas are the essence of all great debates throughout history, from the Greeks to the Oxford Union Debating Society. Today, we turn to television for the creative clash of ideas on matters that touch our lives.

Despite the occasional high decibel level, 'The Group' is not a shout fest. I don't simply want panelists with opposing opinions trying to out-shout one another.

I do put my questions in terms of the sharpest polarities of the issue. But I don't want a preponderance of opinion over factual data.

I don't miss being a priest. The fulfillment factor in matrimony is far greater.

I don't want just attitude and loud opinion.

I like good humor.

I predict 2016 will be a year of upheaval and realignment across the world. China's economy will continue to sputter. Commodity exporting countries will suffer. Europe's growth will remain flat-lined. The U.S. will plug along at under 3% growth.

I predict that as warm weather returns to Europe, so will the flood of Middle Eastern immigrants.

I'm proud to be associated with the public policies of Richard Nixon.

In a confrontational situation, you'll get their gut. And I want their gut! And that's why people watch this show!

Journalists can get very pompous, especially in the formalized days of 'Meet the Press,' when they took themselves so damned seriously.

Liberals always blame the other guy.

My feeling is talk shows have not kept pace with the breakthroughs and changes in format in television generally.

My position is that of detective, confessor, vaudevillian, advocate. And devil's advocate.

My theory is people say under pressure for the most part what they really mean.

Once citadels of free expression and occasional revolutionary ideas, today many American colleges have endorsed political correctness.

President Obama took charge of the Oval Office seven years ago. He promised a positive reset in relations with Russia. But with the radioactive poisoning of a British spy in London, the downing of passenger jets over Europe, and the aggressive advances of Russian forces from Ukraine to Syria, President Putin of Russia has rebuked Mr. Obama.

Radio, in a way, is preaching.

Terms such as 'microaggression,' describing an inadvertent act of offense, have entered the college lexicon, empowering an atmosphere of prior restraint on speech. And many colleges are also disinviting speakers in fear of offending certain elements of their student communities.

The acquisition of knowledge need not be like listening to the Gregorian chant.

There's no substitute for the experience of childbearing or child rearing.

What I want is a clash of ideas, not opinions.

When faced with economic uncertainty, people don't want freedom. When they can't see their economic future, they want the nanny state.

The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.