Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?

I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.