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.

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!

I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing.

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.

If you're trying to be hip, be hip.

Music is an addiction.

Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me.It's my tone on the trumpet, it sounds like I'm speakin'.