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.

Jerry Garcia was one of the original American icons. He played naturally and beautifully.

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.

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.

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

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

Sound has no parents.