"Some white folks don't like me because I won't be a nigger."

"I don't like to talk about my past. I like to live in the present."

"To be a musician, you have to be something of a poet, and you have to be something of a philosopher."

"There are some people who can't get into a groove if they tried. They just don't have it."

"I think that if you just get in there and play, it doesn't matter what kind of music it is, just play."