When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to Negroes, and for a while I tried real hard. But every time I got to hating them, some white guy would come along and mess the whole thing up.

The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.

Jazz is my adventure.

I made the wrong mistakes

I don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

I played the wrong wrong notes.