I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.
The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.
I never have any trouble playing anything I can think of. The trouble is in thinking of what to play.
Hearing myself so much all the time, I don't think I sound that special all the time because it's me.
I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.
We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.
Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.
I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.
Music is my life, is my strong point, that's my love.
Improvisation is a weird word because we often think it means that you make things up out of whole cloth right there on the spot, and that's rarely the case in acting. You have to know who the character is, what the situation is and what is needed.
Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and its empowered large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United State Congress elected -- the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party.