“My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”

“Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.”

“I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me “a legend”.(…) A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.”

“A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes because of the times and the technology that's available, the material that things are made of, like plastic cars instead of steel. So when you hear an accident today it sounds different, not all the metal colliding like it was in the forties and fifties. Musicians pick up sounds and incorporate that into their playing, so the music that they make will be different.”

“I always listen to what I can leave out.”

“If you understood everything I said, you’d be me”

“For me, music and life are all about style.”