I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

If you're trying to be hip, be hip.

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 an addiction.

I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't tell 'em.

With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.

What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it.