I don’t think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career — it’s a life!

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

Actually, I'm not interested in Zen that much, as a philosophy, nor in joining any movements. I don't pretend to understand it. I just find it comforting. And very similar to jazz. Like jazz, you can't explain it to anyone without losing the experience. It's got to be experienced, because it's feeling, not words.

I was lucky -- I found what I love to do early in life,

I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.