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."

I can tell. I'm gifted with that, you know. When I hear that the tempo is slightly off, it's hard for me.

I can't write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don't never write for myself.

I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.

I've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.

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