Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.

You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other - our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That's to help each other, not hurt each other.

I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.

Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.

Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.

The way people come into your life when you need them, it's wonderful and it happens in so many ways. It's like having an angel. Somebody comes along and helps you get right.

I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.

I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.

When I play from my mind I get in trouble.

I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!

The verse is supposed to get you hard so the chorus can suck you off.

Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.

I consider myself a Hindu Christian Moslem Jew Buddhist and Confucian.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

Strange is the influence of Marx on character.

One of the great things about running with Ajamu Baraka is that we speak to all of America.

Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

Style lasts forever and taste doesn't.

Beyond ideas, there's a field. Will you meet me there?