Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.

It seems to me that most people are impressed with just three things: how fast you can play, how high you can play, and how loud you can play.

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.

I'm definitely a romantic, I don't think life is really worth all the pain and effort and struggling if you don't have somebody that you love very much

It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.

I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say.