The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.

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

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

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.

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.