“It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't k...” — Miles Davis Quote

“It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.”

“If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!”

“I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”

“When I'm playing, I'm never through. It's unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it. That's where the high comes in.”

“Space music'd be really something... but they don't have no gravity up there. You couldn't have no downbeat!”

“He comes in on the beat and plays on top of the beat. I think when Prince makes love, he hears drums instead of Ravel.”

“The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.”

“I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.”

“Six years of 'Justified' was a great pleasure and just a gift from God to have a project that was that good and that lasted that long.”

“Strictly has been such a gift. It is so much more than I thought it was going to be.”

“God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.”

“I work hard to make a gift to the audience.”