It's a different ballgame now, so that lets [teo] Macero out. He's always complainin', always sick.

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

When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a pattern. You play the pattern by being consistent.

That's the way you judge a car, man, [good or bad], when you start it up. It's just the same thing. I mean, I drive a Ferrari - not to be cute, but because I dig it. I'd rather drive a ten-year-old Ferrari than one of them new things-they don't go.

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'.

I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything - you know what I mean?