I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L. A. , Paris. I don't know what possessed me.
Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style.
. . . The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.
One thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?'. . . I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving'. . . In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds.
When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.
The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.
We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.
I feel 100% a Yamaha rider in my heart. I had a long career and raced with several factory bikes, but the highlight of my career is undoubtedly with Yamaha.
I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.
It would be very interesting to make a survey around the world, from wealthy countries to the most advanced countries to see what influence Americans have had. I
My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world.