No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.

I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school.

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.