“I didn’t know Charlie Parker well, but I spent some time with him, and he was articulate and well-spoken with a lot of curiosity about music and the world. But the only way he seems to be depicted is as a junkie. And that’s not the full picture.”

Get up from the piano … Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.

In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done the same thing, even if I’d been born later, when Charlie Parker was influencing everybody. The truth is, I never gave it much thought. I just played what I had to play.

At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I’ve got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.

He’s no Bill Clinton!

Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.

The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.

I think that finding a way into somebody’s life that’s sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

If you want to be right-sized in body, you’ve got to get rid of the supersize way of life.

Who says there’s just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest – all slippery water, unmarked?

It’s not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.

When something that can never quite be reenacted comes to an end (and all moments are that way),

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do