“First of all I express sincerity. There's also that sense of humor, by which people sometimes learn to laugh about themselves. I mean, the situation is so serious that the people could go crazy bec...”

“And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.”

“Music is a language, you see, a universal language.”

“But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures ...”

“I use music as a medium to talk to people.”

“I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.”