I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was a wonderful mentor and really, really funny, you know.
Music is real. It affects people; it's real.
A strong spirit transcends rules.
Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'
When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.
Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.
