In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.

Powerful people never educate powerless people in what they need that they can use to take the power away from powerful people; it's too much to expect. If I was in power, I would not educate people in how to take my powers away.

My mom was beautiful; she was supposed to be the original Jane in the original Tarzan movie. They asked her to put her foot in the water and there was an alligator in there, and she wouldn't put her foot in the water.

I think that any of the places that's cut off from money, things come up, what the people have to rely on.

I always seemed to be in the right place at the wrong time.

If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that.

The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.