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.

That was my gift . . . having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.

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.

People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.

Food makes my mind sluggish.

If you have to ask, you'll never know.

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.