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 never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . . . the old slave chants and up through the blues, the jazz, and up through rock. And it's all got the African pulse.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.