Don't be afraid of mistakes - There are none.

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 was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.

Always listen for what you can leave out.

Audiences - they like colour, you know. I can go out there wearing a red suit, man, and they'll say I'm out of sight ... I think they should be educated; you should always drop something on an audience ... When you get in front of an audience, you should try to give 'em something. After all, they're there looking at you like this. You can't go out and give 'em nothing.

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

If you're trying to be hip, be hip.