Maybe you play a melody twice. You play it once like you like it, and some parts that you don't like you can just switch. An eight-bar motive - you can just take it and put it in the front or back or something like that. It can save you 50 or 60 or 70,000 dollars, a drum machine. That's why everybody uses it.

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

The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.

Music is an addiction.

The reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat; it's so slight that they call it "unison", but it's not unison.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.