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.

I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean?

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.

I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, "It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do."

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

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

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.