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.

The music speaks for itself!

Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.

It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--?

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

To keep creating you have to be about change.

Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me.It's my tone on the trumpet, it sounds like I'm speakin'.