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

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

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

There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

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.

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.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.