Every day you have to renew your commitment. Some of the strategies should become habitual over time and not a huge effort.
Barry Manilow is a guy who's had a tremendous longevity that few have had in the music business. I'm in awe of what he does.
That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music, pop, R&B or jazz, there's a place for the saxophone in all of those styles.
I feel like collaboration in music has allowed me to grow musically beyond my wildest dreams.
I credit my collaborators for allowing me to grow. Without them I wouldn't have that opportunity.
Nowadays, not to say that that doesn't happen, but music is made a lot almost in a laboratory where you get one guy working in one studio, they send the file to another guy in some other part of the world, they send it back and then they send it this way and that way. Musicianship is kind of - there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, some great music is made that way.
Some of my best friends have written Broadway shows. Allee Willis and Brenda Russell wrote The Color Purple which has been recently revived on Broadway. That to me is such a different hat that you have to wear, but music is music. A Broadway show is something I would love to have the opportunity to do.
I drive a hybrid. It's a Ford Escape. That's my only car.
Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.
A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter