If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.

Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.

I said to [Lionel] Richie, "Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs."

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.

Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.

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