The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

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.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.

If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.