Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.

So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and thats what a master does.