Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.

The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.

Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.

There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind

My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.