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.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.

Making music is like a form of religion for me, because it soothes your heart and increases the pleasure of your brain. Most of all, it's very enjoyable to express something that you can only hear and not see, which is not bad.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

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

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.