“When you think about musicians who are reading music, my contention ha...” — Cecil Taylor Quote

When you think about musicians who are reading music, my contention has always been the energy that you're using deciphering what the symbol is is taking away from the maximum creative energy that you might have had if you understood that it's but a symbol.

I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

Fats - very funny man, but every note that he played was like a pearl.

I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.

Before he fought Billy Conn, Joe Louis said, 'He can run, but he can't hide.' That's how I feel about New York: You can run from it, but you can't hide.

Coming into Bellator, I didn't want to slide into title contention just because I was in UFC. That wasn't fair to the other women. If I had to fight through all the women, I wanted to do that.

You don't get to win often, but there's nothing like it being in contention, so I think that's kind of what makes me hungrier to come back and to work harder and put myself into that position.

The contention is if you don't do it in the first quarter, if you don't box out and control the glass in the first quarter, you are not going to do it in the fourth quarter and overtime.

I feel like especially at a major championship, you're trying to get into contention and you're trying to win, so I'm going to give it my all.