There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

Being free is a state of mind.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

Love is the most powerful energy there is.

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

I was used to hanging out late after playing a gig - you mix adrenaline with alcohol and you can stay up all night.

Play and practice like you are trying to make the team.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.