How are you gonna be a revolutionary if you're such a traditionalist? You hold onto the past, but jazz is about the future.
Chinese people have saying, when people get cancer they die. It's not cancer that kills them, it's the fear.
I don't want to come off as arrogant here, but I'm the greatest botanist on this planet.
Music is essentially twelve notes between any octave. Twelve notes and the octave repeats. It's the same story told over and over.
Let me tell you something. Me and you. One on one. No one else around. I will beat your ass like a Cherokee drum.
I need to find a way to fill this black hole in me. I still have a family. I want them to be proud of me.
It’s possible to be right and foolish.
Sometimes, the thing you've been looking for your whole life is right there beside you all along.
No one’s ever really gone.
When you least expect it, nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot.
I've never been so scared in my entire life. And I was in an elevator with Saddam Hussein.