I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know.

It takes a long time to sound like yourself.

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

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

We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.

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

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."