Do not be afraid of errors. There are no errors.

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.

As with most dreams of men, the ideal becomes just that––an ideal––and the pure rationale of existence is thrust upon the best of the dreamers.

The failure to accept cancer as a systemic disease is one of the greatest failures in modern medicine.

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.

If you truly love something, fight for it every day, as long as it makes you happy.

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

If I put too many instruments on stage it will become crowded just like Bangalore traffic!