"I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine."

"I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is putting a lot of ego out there, I don't like it. When I make my records I want it to be sincere."

"I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people."

"Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician."

"For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning."

"I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer."

"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."

"My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking."