Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!

I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.

When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.