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

Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.

Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!

I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say "rock". Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him "soul". They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.

If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's such a funky kid and he's gifted. He's like a little genius.

I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that.

Don't be afraid of mistakes - There are none.