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.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.

When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.

But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings

The silence isn't so bad, till I look at my hands and feel sad. Because the spaces between my fingers are right where yours fit perfectly.

I know I can act and it doesn't matter where you come from.

Everything tastes better with butter. Meat that has fat in it is tender in a certain way, flavorful in a certain way. It's hard to deny the flavor quotient there.

Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [ their home ] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community.

Especially when you've become the father of two daughters, you hope the world can be a more gentle place.

Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed and cant get there is the meanest feeling in the world.

There will come a day when I can no longer run. Today is not that day.

Every role is the best role you've ever got. It's the only role you have.

I'm blessed that I'm not content. Whenever I work with kids, which I'm passionate about, I want them to know that, yes, two World Cups, two Asian Cups, but I've done it the hard way.

A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.

When you are doing something neat, and you're doing it with neat people, and there is that convergence, something amazing will happen.

You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

A home is a home, and excess supply leads to prices falling.

It's hard running as an independent. I wouldn't have won the Senate election if I hadn't been governor. I had credibility. The hard part is getting voters to the point where they think it's thinkable and not a waste of time.

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.