Sometimes I think Ben is right, that the fantasy world is better because reality sucks. . . but then I look at Nikki and I believe that we can beat the odds.
Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries.
My first memories of life were in rehearsal; thats why I can sleep through anything.
Ive heard some people say that Im selling out, but Im not. If I hadnt done Black Radio, and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldnt be honest with myself; Id be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.
Once I started getting mainstream people to my shows, I realized we were taking too many solos, and they were too long. I started gauging when people were going on their iPhones.
It's funny, now that we have Twitter and Facebook and stuff, you can really see how you affect fans. Before all that, fans couldn't tell you exactly how they feel, unless they came up after a show, and even then you can't stand there and talk to everybody in the audience. So it's nice to see people tweet me and say, "Your music has changed my life," or "I had my baby to your music," or "I got married to your music. " I've heard so many things, and it's amazing to hear people's stories and how you affect their life.
If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers. . . I barely got asked to do an interview.
No-one is destined to live a life of poverty, because each of us has the ability to change everything in this life. The law of attraction is the law of creation, and it allows each person to create the life they want. Every person has their own unique circumstances to overcome, but every single person has the opportunity to achieve anything - and change everything.
I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself.
Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.