[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.

I've used [drum machine] because I have to have the perfect tempo.

Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

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.

As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.

It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.