We all become what we pretend to be..

We are not revived because we sing; we sing because we are revived..

It is not what you do. It is that you do..

Leadership is more doing than dash..

To be is to stand for..

I've never been onstage in my life..

Things that don't exist do exist. They're just really fast..

Blow your life through your horn..

You can't sing about love unless you know about it..

I've always put myself intensely into my work..

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record..

Fear is the biggest motivator..

All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to.

I've always been interested in making movies..

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally..

He's my elvis. I idolize Nusrat, he's a god, too.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science..

I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed..

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I make movies for money, exclusively for money..

I kinda live where I find myself..