I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.

I am a romantic, I admit it.

I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110% conscious, and in a world that's losing consciousness, that's getting harder.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

Being an authority on paper does not immediately grant you authority over a group until it is earned by you and given by them.

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it.

A leader must inspire or his team will expire

To me, God comes first, my family come second. If I fail at those two, I'm just playing games.

The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century.

Your best T-shirt should be like your bed; it just feels like you are home when you are in it.

Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.

The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.

The Cherokee used to fear that taking a photo would make them lose their souls. Over exposure and desensitization is pretty close to losing ones soul. So they were right to quite an extent.

You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.'

Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.

America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian.

We all want to be the sexy girl.

It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.

My main trick is to work with amazing people. It's a long and twisty journey, and you need people that really are amazing and have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up.

To be honest, I kind of dress like a 15-year-old boy. And I probably live like a 15-year-old boy, too.

I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

I like anywhere with a beach. A beach and warm weather is all I really need.

A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.

I always knew that I was going be an environmental advocate when I was very young.