I am an isolationist.

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

...I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the window square across the wall in silent grace...

Broken boys are dangerous, but broken men are lovely.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.

I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.

How many times have you bought something thinking it would make you happy, and found it does not?

Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.

If the nuclear program is indeed meant only for civil purposes, then it is wrong to impose sanctions.

I stopped Googling myself a long time ago. I'm sure there's plenty of misinformation out there, but I am blissfully unaware of it.