I tend to eat geographically. When I'm in L.A., I like to eat L.A. food..

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a ….

Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody..

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself..

The more it changes, the more it's the same thing..

Presuasion is what you say immediately before you deliver your message that leverages your success tremendously..

Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be..

I work with the dead, but I am working for the living..

When you play, never mind who listens to you..

Is not poetry the food of love?.

I like to go to the movies or read..

You work with what you got..

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of..

the more you live the more things reflect all around you!!!!.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one..

Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now..

I don't have the genetic make-up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it..

In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I t….

After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life..

In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and was….

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religio….