I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

My strength is in the Lord. In him, I breathe, live and move.

I am sick of old ghosts and I just want to feel safe again without the haunts of old vulnerabilities.

I almost forgot to tell you - you have the right to remain silent, but if you do, my boys at the station will process your bones to help you confess.

The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.

In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred.

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.