Lionel [Richie] said, "Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums."

In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers.

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.

I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.

In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it's supposed to sound like you - the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.

You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.

You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself