Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

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.

Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.

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.

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

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

It takes a long time to sound like yourself.