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" I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor. "

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" All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people. "

" When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van, and get rockin'. "

" You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions. "

" Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place. "

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" The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things. "

" It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, and because of that, often times, we don't grow or change because we're not pushing ourselves. "

" It's fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I'm running. To be honest, when I do longer runs, the trail that I like to run up in Malibu has mountain lions, so I always feel I want to run with someone else. "

" I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am. "

" I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess. "

" I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction. "

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

" I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians. "

" I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up. "

" 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 studied chord theory and started playing the piano. "

" The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough. "

" We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal. "

" The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive. "

" For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on. "

" I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving. "

" 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 went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music. "

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

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

" 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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" Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos. "

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