Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything.
The inside of the tune [the bridge] is the part that makes the outside sound good.
Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.
The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.
If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.
Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric.
I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.
Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?
Surprisingly, maybe the place I get recognised the least is the United States. America is not so big on track and field. Some recognise me there but lots don't.
Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.
God is action, complete with mistakes, fumblings, persistence, agony. God is not the power that has found eternal equilibrium, but the power that is forever breaking every equilibrium, forever searching for a higher one.