When we edit the music, I always remember, "It's my band. Save me a place to play."

You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.

If you make a suggestion and [musicians] don't know what you mean, you have to be able to do it yourself. I often sit down on drums and show 'em just exactly what I want. And I do it and then say, "How do you do that?" It's because I know how it looks, I know what I want to hear, and I don't drop or rush any tempo. It ain't in my body, it ain't in my nephew's body.

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

I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.

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

Sometimes, if you ask people to "go downstairs and get me this or that," they'll say, "It's rainin" or "It might rain," or "There's some bumpy roads on the road," or bla-bla-bla. They give you all those excuses, so when they do something which is easy, you're supposed to say, "Damn, you did that?"