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.

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.

They [police] do me like that all the time! "What you work for?".

Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something about punching Monk out in front of his face - and I never did - then somebody should have just come and got me and taken me to the madhouse, because Monk could have just picked my little ass up and thrown me through a wall.

To keep creating you have to be about change.

Lionel [Richie] said, "Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums."

Food makes my mind sluggish.