Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian? A singer? A performance artist? I've seen him a few times since then and I still can't decide. Whatever, he ain't like nobody else.

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it