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.

I'd rather have the whole world against me than my own soul.

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

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.

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.

In the network's mind there are no limits.

Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.