Musician

Musicians do music for the girls. We do music for the money. We do music for the recognition, for the rock and roll history. But we also do it because it's fun.

My dad, he was my role model - my mom died when I was three - and the way we honor our parents is remembering their heritage.

You can't get around certain stuff, whether it's in Darfur or on your block at home. What makes us political is your home turf, your family, your life space. You walk down the street, and automatically a human being is territorial, and political happens in that.

I'm a family person, and you make those choices.

I graduated from Wayne State University, but there's a whole lot you don't learn in school.

I like Detroit.

You see there's music and there's the music business - and they're different.

I wasn't very successful at running for office.

That late success has happened is OK. I'm grounded. I use my seniority to my advantage. That's helped me out. Who'd have thought? So, yeah. I'm a lucky guy.

It took me 10 years to get a four-year degree, but I graduated.

There are beautiful songs people write about love and dancing. But it's political issues that should be addressed.

My career, it's been a mess.

I'm a fortunate man, quite fortunate.

All my life, I never gave up on music and though there was a lot of disappointment for some that the commercial thing never happened, it has never been a disappointment for me.

I loved Jimmy Reed, the chord changes, the lyrics.

I want to be mayor of the world. Don't give me too much money or too much power.

I play guitar and I'm always trying to find out the latest kinds of riffs.

I'm Mexican, and we do a lot of singing, and it was my brother's guitar that I'd practice on, and he would say, 'Who's that playing my guitar?'

If I sound political, it's because I am.

I don't much listen to music as I study it: who's doing what, who wrote it.