Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.

It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.

I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock.

In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.

I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.

The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.

I look forward to working out every day.

As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'

There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.

All this pain is going to come back and make me stronger.

When you die, we go back to the white energy of all the white energy: white heat that's flung against the sky and becomes a star.

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget it.

The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.

When a fan says, 'Man, you saved my life; I heard 'Jungleland'... and I cried... and I felt joy in my life again,' that's my hall of fame.

Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.

Before the Berlin Wall came down, we played behind the Iron Curtain and sang, 'Born in the U.S.A.,' and I thought, 'We're all going to die. The man is going to get us all killed.' But then you saw all these kids with the American flag and German flags together and singing the song, and it was, wow, like 'We Shall Overcome.'

Sometimes you just do things and let your natural self become a part of what you're doing.

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

I know from my own experience that anything is possible, that there's nothing you can't do.

My dad didn't like staying in one place, so we moved around every year - to a new house, new town, new country.

Personally, I don't like defining myself. I don't want to be put in one category in any kind of way.

I love being called Baddest Female.

I don't want to take too much responsibility, where I'm like, 'Oh, I'm representing Asia.'