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."

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

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.

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

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

I've used [drum machine] because I have to have the perfect tempo.

He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.