You can't escape from what you are..

No one ever gets to see what could’ve been..

Uncyclopedia isn't funny anymore..

Fusion has been my nemesis..

Jazz is not gonna be a dinosaur and stay around in one form..

I'm most certainly not the Beatles..

Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers..

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty..

There's something unsettling about being continually sold something..

Painting, I think it's like jazz..

[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and it's always a surprise..

I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them whe….

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm..

You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music..

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom..

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to..

Faith that is sure of itself is not faith; faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is..

I learned so much from Tony Danza I learned so much about myself..

All of us are better when we're loved..

Celebrity is something I've never been into, and never will be..

I'm definitely someone that's private. I've never been interested in celebrity..