If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.

I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't tell 'em.

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

When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a pattern. You play the pattern by being consistent.

When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.

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

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."