“I don’t care what you play, where you’re from, who you produce. It depends on what you’re doing when you’re with me. That’s what counts. I don’t pre-judge anything or anybody.”

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

Running helps me relieve my stress.

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father’s footsteps.

Photographs bring back the memories.

The last thing my father told me was: ‘On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don’t let me down.’ A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.

I don’t believe in other people’s ideas. I have my own ideas.

It’s important to make sure you move your body every day. 

Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant, and it is very useful.

Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.

Love is my religion.

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

Reading is an essential tool to keep the mind sharp and the imagination running wild & free.

I don’t fight creativity. I don’t fight against not being creative. If I’m not being creative, I’m not forcing it.

I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.

The roots of my music start from the ghetto.

Self Care is refusing to be talked out of your knowing.

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

Be careful not to try and fast forward yourself into a future you haven’t earned, Blessings on the journey.

We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

Take care of your dreams. Or your fears will care for them for you.

If it were given to a man to see virtue’s reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.