“I’m inspired to do music. I really can’t stop unless I stop being inspired.”

I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.

I always enjoy hearing different musical interpretations of the music.

It’s hard to say a favorite song of my father’s. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the ’70s.

True music makes true fans.

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.

I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.

I’m not so much into the beats. I’m more into the spiritual side of the music.

We can overcome the obstacles through human unity.

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.

A couple of people can literally make a whole forest of a difference.

It don’t last forever, the pain. Realize that tomorrow is coming. Move further from this pain and this stress.

Music is the vehicle of man’s life.

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

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.

I am so confident in that idea that if love gets a chance, it will transform the community and the world into a more prosperous place, because we are capable of love.

Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.

I am a big music nerd.

Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Tuborg. My brother would go out to party and get laid, come home at 3am., and I would still be playing with myself.

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.

The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same – 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.

Its neither politics or religion. Music is the universal love language.

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.