It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.

It's a different ballgame now, so that lets [teo] Macero out. He's always complainin', always sick.

Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.

What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it.

I couldn't do "What's Love Got To Do With It", Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo; so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened.

Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.