"I'm a jazz philosopher. I believe in improvisation, in spontaneity, in the unexpected."

"A lot of folk who have lost faith in God it's a very healthy thing because the God they lost faith in was probably an idol anyway."

"I'm a jazzman, a bluesman, a revolutionary Christian. I'm a mess, but I'm a beautiful mess."

"Calling Larry Summers 'the Ariel Sharon of higher education'."

"Obama posed as progressive and turned out to be counterfeit. We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency."