Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

I warm naturally to the drummer whose ideas and approach are strong, even if he doesn't quite have the ability to carry them out.

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star.

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.