Listening to the stories told in jazz music and how those artists expressed their truths about the times and what they were dealing with is what struck me the most.

Once you see how powerful music is and how it can affect people, then you want to use it to impact the world.

My prayers are being answered for my career. These are prayers I've been praying for as a kid.

I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

God is best known in not knowing him.

Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.

I have great faith that most Americans are law-abiding and care about the rule of law, and if they're told a weapon is no longer allowed in their community and they would be compensated, they would find a way to do the right thing.