Why'd you put that white bitch on there? - Miles Davis

Being rebellious and black, a nonconformist, being cool and hip and angry and sophisticated and ultra clean, whatever else you want to call it — I was all those things and more. But I was playing the fuck out of my horn and had a great group, so I didn't get recognition based only on a rebel image.

I always listen to what I can leave out.

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.