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

I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say "rock". Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him "soul". They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.

Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays "My Funny Valentine" on celeste, you know? So I had Bobby [Irving] just play "Jean Pierre" with the changes on celeste.

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.

If you're going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.

When we edit the music, I always remember, "It's my band. Save me a place to play."

In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it's supposed to sound like you - the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.