Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be one of them.

Around midnight I heard them shout unfaithful one and I knew right then the axe was gonna fall. It's because of me.

In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.

I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.

Christians should be good managers and stewards of God’s riches

Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives

There are times in life when one is in the trough of the wave, and other times when the blessings of the Eternal One wash over us like waves.A Letter to GodPage 85

Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is?

... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.

Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.

The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.