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.

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

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.

I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

Just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.

The greatest possession is Self-possession.

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they don't fall out they let them live another year.

We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.

Certainly you will have doubts. There will be questionings and faith will return again. That is how faith is established.

We all want to be happy.

Jasper chuckled, shaking his head. " You truly are one frightening little monster.