If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.

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

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I mean, I drive a Ferrari - not to be cute, but because I dig it. I'd rather drive a ten-year-old Ferrari than one of them new things-they don't go.

My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.

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."

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--?