I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people.

I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.

DJs and people in the street know what they like.

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.

I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.

I still look good. I'm trippin', but people tell me that all the time. So check it out, I'm 63, and still kicking. I've been putting records out every year.

I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.

Sometimes funny is all you've got.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25

I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.

A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local rules

Don't try to tackle a two-hour feature movie as your first project. Cut your teeth on a smaller level and work through the kinks at that level and build your strength as you go.

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?