Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.
You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.
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.
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.
When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.
Obviously the Internet has become something of a leveler; it was once a luxury to be able to reach a mass audience, and now anybody can do it, to some extent.
I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.
I don't like characters that are left being jerks at the end of the movie.