When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.

Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.

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

I couldn't do "What's Love Got To Do With It", Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo; so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened.

If I hear a song like "Time After Time." I'm sittin' there lookin' at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin' this song. I said, "God damnnnnn!"

It takes a long time to sound like yourself.

When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.