Powerful people never educate powerless people in what they need that they can use to take the power away from powerful people it's too much to expect. If I was in power, I would not educate people in how to take my powers away.

I've been thinking a lot lately about taking chances, and how it's really just about overcoming your fears. Because the truth is, everytime you take a big risk in your life, no matter how it ends up, you're always glad you took it.

I always seemed to be in the right place at the wrong time.

In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.

The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.

When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.

Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.

In the network's mind there are no limits.

The events which transpired five thousand years ago Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now five years From now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event.

I'd rather have the whole world against me than my own soul.

I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all talking to me now. And they accept me as a humanoid again.

We all, if we go with ego I go or you go ego thing, it's got to be free from all of that and just roll, because music is a spiritual thing. It's got to come through us and can't just hit us. It's got to be part of us that comes through us and goes to the people, and then they come back to us and give us more spirit.

If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that.