We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.

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

After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body--like radiation, cancer, and all.