Alanis Morissette

And I always laugh at that, because I think I’ve always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

I could write six songs in one day with everything that’s going on.

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

What’s that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I’m able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I’m older. Thank God for growing up.

I was born in ’74, so I missed out on all the great early ’60s and early ’70s.

What’s tied Jazz together is its foundation in the Blues, a reliance on group interplay and the unique phenomenon of spontaneous improvisation.

We never play anything the same way once.

You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, ‘Yes, where are you going?’ And he says, ‘I want a ticket to nowhere.’ I thought: that’s it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.

However it goes, I’ll just keep playing. That’s where the basic satisfaction is at.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else.

Despite the fact I’m a professional performer, it’s true that I have always preferred playing without an audience.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

If you must listen to bad music, please use headphones.

The hidden things, the subconscious that lies in the body and lets you know: You feel this, you play this.

No, working is what will keep you alive.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art, instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

I love it. When they stop imitating me then I’ll start wondering where I’m going wrong. Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.