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" Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that. "

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" I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician. "

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" When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker. "

" Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it. "

" I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history. "

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" The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people. "

" As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is. "

" A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school. "

" Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. "

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" For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s. "

" I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school. "

" With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing. "

" Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world. "

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" We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual. "

" After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way. "

" I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.' "

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" Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type. "

" When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band. "

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