I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.
What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.
A conductor should guide rather than command.
No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.
I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.
Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
My love life is like everyone else's - great, and then terrible.
When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear.
So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don't see it happening.
For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.
So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.
People ask how far I've gone in life. About 20 miles.
When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.
Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.
I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.
