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!

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it were mine".

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.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

I don't need time, I need a deadline.