I have to follow my instinct and intuition and curiosity.

Music has become something different from the past, when it was one hundred per cent live. Throughout the twentieth century, it was recorded, and the medium adjusted.

I honestly like any sound. Birds. I have a very broad space to accept or enjoy anything except quiet.

It's a very intimate, closed universe, doing my own music. It's just me, basically. I have to inspire myself; I have to do everything by myself.

I felt like the Germans were being mean to me at training, but they were actually just trying to help. I learned really quick - which made me a better player. I'm appreciative of the way they treated me. It's just the language and, of course, as an American, I had to learn that. No offense to them; I love them to death, and I love my teammates.

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.

I don't have much of a wish list, but I'm dying to work with Erykah Badu. That's pretty much my dream collaboration.