To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction.

Bo Jackson did just about anything he wanted to do. There wasn't much of anything we could do to slow him down.

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.