You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know, in a real situation.

If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.