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Dear Perrine,

Cats do not belong on top of sandwiches!

You usually jump to the chair and look at where you're going before you get on the table -- why'd you have to break your routine now?

-- the scowling, would-be sandwich-eater

"I learned from Elvin Jones, play 'Black Magic Woman' and 'Smooth' and 'Maria, Maria' like it's the first time and the last time -- like it's your first French kiss, so you're totally in the moment. When you do the first French kiss and you're like -- you're in the moment. You're not in Rome or Tokyo, you're right here, right now.

"And that's what is required for music to be fresh and new with purity and innocence. You have to be in the moment, not doing this and being somewhere else. And so to be in a parking lot or at Woodstock or Hard Rock Hotel or the joint, to me it's the same place now. This is what keeps it -- this is what keeps the music into that place that I mentioned to you. When eternity nears, time disappears."

-- Carlos Santana (b. 1947-07-20), interviewed by Tavis Smiley on the PBS television program Tavis Smiley, 2009-04-02