I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.
“I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.”
“Health food shops can make people feel very important; it's like a brand new religion with people trying to convert you to quinoa.”