And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don't grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows where some good little thing that you've done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of?

My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.

A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can't. You have to restrict yourself at some time, or else you find yourself just being spread too thin. And already I think I try too many things.