'I'll play it and tell you what it is later.'

'You can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played.'

'Listen baby, when I say later, I mean it! Later!'

'Why'd you put that white bitch on there?'

Like I say, the way I write songs is, you know, inspirational. I have to wait for it to happen. And when it happens I get lines, and I just write them down, yo…

Something in me knows where I'm going, and - well, painting is a state of being.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.