When it comes to songs and music, yeah, people love to sing and dance and play music and tunes, and that stream of consciousness that exists in music, nobody knows where that comes from.

The blues is always there. It's going to be hard out here, but it's all right. It's all right, and that's what the blues teaches you. You got to roll with the punches and find your equilibrium.

You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents.

The arts shows that you're civilized, and it makes life sweet. So you can exist and you can buy more things and you can be more - we're dealing with a form of commercialism that obscures a prior relationship to quality, and it's a national problem.

Don't bullshit' just play.

The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.

There's the tradition in jazz of having the “Battle of the Bands” and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.