The concept is to weave in some emotion.

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

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.

Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

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