I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.

My first love was the sound of guitar.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

I'm not a jazz singer.

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

I was a guitar player first off.

Living in new shapes, reshapes our thinking

The result of mindful awareness is the development of our virtues, which are the basic positive building blocks of our life.

‎Never say you can't be a writer or a script writer, remember how well, characters in your dreams said their dialogues.

Alone on the terrace looking up at the stars I would not feel lonely. With him glued to the screen, I feel gutted...

The credit to them, the better team won and there's nothing we can do about that now.

55% of all Americans lose their remote control 5 times a week. That means that they must see the same show for up to 3-4 minutes a time!

Honestly, I was pretty sure AltaVista was going to destroy Google

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

When one loves, one does not calculate.