“I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.”
“Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.”
“Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.”
“Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.”
“Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!”
“I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.”
“First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.”
“I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.”
“KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.”
“I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.”