It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

I was born with music inside me

Now Listen You know I work so hard, all day long Everything I try to do, Seem to always turn out wrong That's why I wanna stop by on my way home and say Let's go get stoned

You never can overwhelm an instrument. You will never get out all that's in an instrument. An instrument will bring you to your limits.

[On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.