I collaborate with people who know I'm a control freak.
When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.
You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.
If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial.
Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.
My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.
I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
There's a paradox in every paradigm.
I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.
Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.