Everything was believed except the truth..

I like idolator.com a lot. Every once in a while they shred me on there, but it's usually pretty funny..

We are a nation within a nation..

My failures has helped me as much as my successes..

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial..

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music..

Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was..

Watching something is nothing like doing it..

The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself..

I am competitive, and I like to be as competitive as possible in anything I do..

We all have to meet our match sometime or other..

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz..

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz..

If I could spend the rest of my life inside one movie it would be The Godfather, because it's the greatest movie ever made..

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it..

When you make a movie, you're spending a month of your life with someone and, down the line, you have to spend more months with them. It is this mini….

It's terrifying to have a voice right now. It's so terrifying, and it's so essential..

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine..

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal..

Business is business and politics is politics and never between shall meet..

Music should never be harmless..