The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.

I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.