That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I mean, I drive a Ferrari - not to be cute, but because I dig it. I'd rather drive a ten-year-old Ferrari than one of them new things-they don't go.

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

To keep creating you have to be about change.

Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.

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

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.

We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em.