I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing.

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

First you imitate, then you innovate.

I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.

When we edit the music, I always remember, "It's my band. Save me a place to play."

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.

Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.