The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.

If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.

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.

I like walking on the edge.

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.