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

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

The concept is to weave in some emotion.

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.

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.

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.