Some of the newer folks in the INDUSTRY, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't UNDERSTAND what it MEANS to play a character RATHER than just be a PERSONALITY.

In the long term, artificial INTELLIGENCE and automation are going to be TAKING over so much of what gives humans a FEELING of purpose.

I don't think that you can INVENT on behalf of customers UNLESS you're willing to think LONG-TERM, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it MEANS you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

Ultimately, I THINK there's this UMBRELLA term of jazz, and what's cool about not just what's happening with my music but this general SENSE of what's happening with this generation of musicians, is it's a very broad term, and we can incorporate all types of music, and we can be influenced and inspired by all KINDS of sounds.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to PEOPLE, you're telling them that they're LESS than SOMEBODY else.

I THINK the TERM poet is a very exalted term and should be APPLIED to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the BODY of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

That TERM, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable VICTORIES by some WEAK PARTY over SOMEONE far stronger.