If You Carry Joy In Your Heart,

There's A Melody In Everything. And Once You Find The Melody, Then You Connect Immediately With The Heart. Because Sometimes English Or Spanish, Swahili Or Any Language Gets In The Way. But Nothing Penetrates The Heart Faster Than The Melody.

I Think Of Music As A Menu. I Can't Eat The Same Thing Every Day.

When A Baby Comes You Can Smell Two Things: The Smell Of Flesh, Which Smells Like Chicken Soup, And The Smell Of Lilies, The Flower Of Another Garden, The Spiritual Garden.

First Of All, The Music That People Call Latin Or Spanish Is Really African. So Black People Need To Get The Credit For That.

My Job In This Life Is To Give People Spiritual Ecstasy Through Music. In My Concerts People Cry, Laugh, Dance. If They Climaxed Spiritually, I Did My Job. I Did It Decently And Honestly.