For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down.

My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain.

I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art. And I feel I was chosen as an instrument to just give music and love and harmony to the world. To children of all ages, and adults and teenagers.... I love people of all races from my heart, with true affection.