Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

All the music that I've made in the past I've believed in. I think some of it has been more commercially successful than others, but it wasn't premeditated.

I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.

I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.'

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.