There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!

I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.

I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's no proof of it.

Every man prays in his own language.

What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?