People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.

You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.

In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it's supposed to sound like you - the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.

When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.