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

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.

La Masia is a place where lots of people live together but you are on your own.

Because we put ourselves in a movie or on TV, then it must mean we want to be completely open to the world. Sometimes, people will run up to you as if this is Disneyland and I'm a character. I understand their point of view, but it's difficult to explain how terrified it makes me. I'm so nervous.

Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

I live my life exactly the way I want to. Nothing stops me from going out or being anywhere that I want to be. I am doing whatever I want to do. I do not live my life according to any restrictions whatsoever!

When I have a girlfriend, I feel caged in, I don't know why.

I have a strong, inspiring, and professional group of women around me with Boels-Dolmans. We race and train incredibly hard as a team.

It's like watching a car accident, that reality TV.

I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.

Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that.

In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.

I think I'm going to be a stuntwoman on the side.

I say this about everything: when I was on 'Neighbours,' I said, 'These are the best years of my life!' When I was filming 'The Wolf Of Wall Street,' I said, 'These are the best months of my life!' I always think I'm having the best time ever, and that I'll never have so much fun again.

The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control.

I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.

We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn't know what to think cuz we were just joking around.

We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions. The most I would use doing squats was 300 pounds.

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

The past has to inform the present.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time.