Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

I have art. I have music. I have the history, this legacy behind me that I can look up to. This is what I believe in. If you want to call it God or spirituality, that's all up to you. Basically I believe in something that's bigger than myself, and that gives my life meaning.

No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds.

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing.