I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.
Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.
Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.
Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.
My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.