I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing.
First you imitate, then you innovate.
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.
Music is the framework around the silence.
If you're going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.