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" I would have never gotten to college if it hadn't been for getting up at 4 A.M. and milking them Holsteins. "

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" As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer. "

" My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it. "

" Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit. "

" I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language. "

" As I got more involved in music, one of the things that made me excited, from the time I was a child, was that clear link between our ancestors and the sounds we hear today. "

" I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music. "

" If what you're talking about is seeing someone perform, then I'll have to say that in the rhythm-and-blues side of things, seein' Otis Redding live was it, you know? "

" When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music. "

" I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road. "

" Music is like the soul of the planet. "

" I'm perceived as someone who goes out and searches for new music, but it was all present in my household. "

" If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again. "

" In looking out into the world, it didn't look all that nice out there. And who were the nice people? Certainly Mahatma Gandhi was. "

" My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective. "

" The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable. "

" I've got tons more stuff to do. "

" What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African music. If you're playing it like it's an echo of the past, it would be a lot less exciting, but this music lives today. "

" What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity. "

" My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences. "

" I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically. "

" I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking. "

" Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old. "

" American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without. "

" I pretty much move around wherever I like. "

" All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s. "

" It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own. "

" As a youngster, my parents made me aware that all that was from the African Diaspora belonged to me. So I came in with Caribbean music, African music, Latin music, gospel music and blues. "

" I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp on it. But I started writing more because, you know, it's easy to regurgitate what somebody else is doing, but it's exciting to be able to come up with your own writing. "

" I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. There are some other things to do here - movies and scores and voice-overs. "

" As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of. "