I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my….

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 beg….

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways..

There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light..

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose..

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

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'.

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation i….

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….

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 ….

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 ….

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

Angels cry because they want to experience what you and I feel: the moment. They live in eternity. They dont know what it is like to read a newspaper….

No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real..

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims..

When you play from the heart, all of a sudden there's no gravity. You don't feel the weight of the world, of bills, of anything. That's why p….

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that..

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..

John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His gift is directly from the m….

If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic. There is nothing more contagious on th….

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