Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.