The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.