“Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.”

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that ‘s why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I’m just roaming around, vagabonding.

There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

I’m ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I’m really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It’s not like I’m cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.

There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.

Bring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

You cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently.

I know I’m not the kind of person who’s gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock ‘n’ roll artists. They just play their hits and that’s it. That doesn’t appeal to me.

I am becoming the people I love.

I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-consciousness.

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

Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, ‘Oh man, this is the stuff.’ It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.

If you really want peace on earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with and then spread.

The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty. Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.

Begin to live as though your prayers are already answered.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

Most people’s historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

The heights of the earth don’t even begin to measure up to how much the creator of this universe loves you.