Sometimes [playing free] doesn't happen, because maybe a guy's wife'll come in, you know, and his ego will catch him. If everybody's completely just straight-without any old ladies over here, a fourth of whisky over there; if it's balanced right, it'll come off. It has to be. But when you get egos involved with playing free, you can't do it.

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a pattern. You play the pattern by being consistent.

If you don't know what to play, play nothing.

I'll play it first and figure out what it's called later.

I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.