The reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat; it's so slight that they call it "unison", but it's not unison.

There are no wrong notes.

I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

You can't eat a winner's plaque.

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.

It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.