“Every time you play you have energy within you – universal energy.”

Inspiration is not inside of us. Inspiration comes from outside. It comes from our spiritual guides and from different energies that are in the universe.

That’s the energy that keeps everything together – the planets, the galaxies. Everything.

Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.

If we keep in touch with god and our spiritual guides, just knowing that they exist and they are there for us, gives us the strength to say well this is a bad phase but it’s going to end and when it ends I’m going to do something good.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless,

If I come to work every day and do my job, work as hard as I can, be a great teammate, the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.

All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.

I’m hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

As a general, and as a leader of this team, whatever I’ve got to do get my guys going I’ll do it every time. If I have to be the bad guy sometime, I’ll guess I’ll take that. That’s what a leader and a general and a chief of police does.