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

My reality is that God speaks to you every day. There's an inner voice, and when you hear it, you get a little tingle in your medulla oblongata at the back of your neck, a little shiver, and at two o'clock in the morning, everything's really quiet and you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: Write this down. It is just an inner voice, and you trust it. That voice will never take you to the desert.

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.

Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears...wi th one chord

No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

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