If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you're in love.

The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.

I always listen to what I can leave out.

Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging — but they weren't sweet.

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

That's the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.