There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.

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.

He just seems as cool as ever. I can smell him. Even on the other side, there is smell. Like, when babies are born, there's two smells-one is chicken soup, which is the flesh, and the other is lilacs, which is coming from the spiritual garden. The spirit has a lilac smell.

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days - thats a long time for me.