There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.

Give me a glazed doughnut, and a bottle of anything... to go!

Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.