When I heard Charlie Parker the first time on a record, it had seemed like an old, scratchy kind of record and I didn't get it.
Many hands make light work.
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Rome was not built in one day.
Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
It's very interesting being an artist and a comedian, (because) you aim for jobs that will feed your ego, but when you get up to the precipice of them, you actually have to deliver. You actually have to understand that you're reaching a new level where there are way more eyes on you, way more expectations and way more pressure.
Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
You get committed with what you put in songs. It made me wary of who and what I include, because that's there forever.