✦The will of God, whatever you want to call it - call it Jesus, call it Mohammed, call it your heart - call it whatever you wanna call it. It’s still music to me.  It’s there. It’s the will of life.

✦Your majesty's upside down, and music comes from the crown. Music comes from your king, music comes from your lord, music comes from your soul.

✦Music.... is like the soul from center. It's sound from the birth baby to the old and death and beyond. It hooks up life, death, and all we don't understand. It is the universe on a level all its own. There are awarenesses hidden within sound just like programs within your computer.

✦In many traditions or cultures being a songwriter is a matter of great honor. You have to have permission from a songwriter to sing his songs because his songs contain his spirit.

✦I'm a hobo, and I've been on the road since I was just a little kid. I've got a lot of good songs that I never let anybody see because I don't want them stealing 'em. I don't really open up, 'cause if I open up I'll never live to get out of here.

✦Let me clear some things from the sounds I make. I don't perform, entertain, or act. I'm not for sale. My music is me, I am one song. My life is my religion music song soul self as I'm moved by spirit soul or the other side of what's seen and called graves or death. Music is family religion. It's the way we spread news and talk to our soul. We travel and are a media to and for our people. We have done this since bagpipes and golf games from our fathers. It's not a buy or sell thing to me... I don't sell the wind that blows through me.

✦I've got some new style things - they're not new to life, but they're new to music - like going into a trance, putting yourself in a trance, and coming from the spiritual world with other life forms that have lived before. And I'm not talking about something phony - this can be done. But it can’t be done for inspection, it can't be done consciously. It has to be a total oblivion, unconscious thing that only happens every once in awhile, it just sneaks through every once in awhile and happens. And I just happened to get some of that, about some Navaho, some Indians, and some different things.

✦You don't realize what the music from this prison is. If you come to prison and sing on the tier someone will tell you to shut the fuck up and if you keep it up they will throw a bucket of water on you and kick your ass and stab you. To sing on a tier in a cell block you must first hold majesty over all the heads.