If I had been a man in a suit and tie, he would have never given me that clipboard and told me to write that order, ... I threw the clipboard back at him and I said, 'No, you can write the order for me.'

I had to, ... Tie my suit up, tie my tie and just get downstairs to my car as fast as I could, so nobody could see me.

I don't want you to feel like you need a suit and tie to eat here. I'm not that person. My nose isn't in the air. I want everybody to enjoy it.

[Gilberto Gil wears a sober suit and tie these days, and his dreadlocks are greying at the temples. But you soon remember that, as well as the serving culture minister of Brazil, you are in the presence of one of the biggest Latin American musicians of the 60s and 70s when you ask him about his intellectual influences and he cites Timothy Leary.] Oh, yeah! ... For example, all those guys at Silicon Valley - they're all coming basically from the psychedelic culture, you know? The brain-expanding processes of the crystal had a lot to do with the internet.

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.

Never be decieved by exterior decorations, some monsters go about on suit and tie and of course a Bible.