Audiences - they like colour, you know. I can go out there wearing a red suit, man, and they'll say I'm out of sight ... I think they should be educated; you should always drop something on an audience ... When you get in front of an audience, you should try to give 'em something. After all, they're there looking at you like this. You can't go out and give 'em nothing.

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

I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.

First you imitate, then you innovate.

If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.

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

White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything - you know what I mean?