In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.

Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force.

To have world peace, we all have to have a healthy understanding of what is necessary to bring World Peace. It's not something that will be dropped on our laps. We have to work for it. Until we get World Peace, I think my strongest passion stays in the effort to get it.

We know that our cells are speaking to each other.

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.