When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads

I put all those synthesizer sounds behind "Decoy" and "Code M.D." A lot of things we write together. A lot of things are his, but they don't have that thing I want on the bottom. I often tell him, I say, "Bobby [Irving], if there's a melody, there's another one somewhere that goes with it."

When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

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

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

First you imitate, then you innovate.

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