I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.

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

I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-conscio usness

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.