When destiny calls you, you've got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you've got to move on.
I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.
You leave a country, they stop playing you on the radio.
If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.
I prefer black music in general.
I didn't become a commercially successful artist by design, and actually I think that commercially successful just means, if you analyse it, that a lot of people like you. It's become a dirty word, and I don't necessarily think it needs to be.