I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, "It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do."

As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.

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

It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--?

Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?

I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean?

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