I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.

I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.

After I found out that I was playing music and that I'd have to learn how to read and write music, I started doing that about two years later. Finally, I said, "Oh, that means what I really want to do is to be a composer." But when I was coming up in Texas, there was segregation. There was no schools to go to. I taught myself how to read and how to start writing.

To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.