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

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.

I would invite all Latin people to do nothing for about two weeks so you can see who really, really is running the economy I am here to give voice to the invisible.

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.

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

You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.