Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property.

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 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.

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

Angling is a sport, so sporting ethics should apply.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

It's smart to marry your yoga teacher so when you get divorced you know how to go down on yourself.

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

If you don't appreciate what you have in life right now, whatever it is, you will never realize your purpose. Without appreciation, you will never become strong enough to respect yourself.

Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.

After the climb, you should feel no trace of tiredness; on the contrary, it is then that you should be really fresh. Then you will have found the correct measure of your abilities.

Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.

You just say the word, and I'll make the rest of the world go away. I'll take you someplace safe, where no one else can reach us.

Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.