A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.

It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

In music, silence is more important than sound.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

An inch to a man’s heart is a mile to his wallet.

A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.

I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.

I don't think for a second that I'm the best at anything, but I know I'm really good at quite a lot of things because I work hard.

I want everything to be perfect, if I'm going to do it.

Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.

I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating.