You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

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."

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.

Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!