"Going to the Sahara Desert and meeting the Touareg band Tinariwen was a life-changing experience. All through that time, I have just carried on learning and meeting musicians, and I keep finding links between different forms."

“If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.”

“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”

“Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.”

“Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me.”

“The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.”

Source : New Dawn Press, Incorporated, Amit Abraham (2004). “Personality Development Through Positive Thinking”, p.9, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

“All the world loves a lover, and a lover loves all the world.”

Source : Anthony Storr (2005). “Solitude: A Return to the Self”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

“I'm just honest about the things I believe in. For instance, I went to a past-life regressionist, and he told me that in my past life I was assassinated. I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.”

Source : Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

“I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com