You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.

If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.

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."

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

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

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.