If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

Music is the language of heaven.

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.