Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.

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.

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

...if he had married Mrs. Albert Grantham for her money I freely admit that no man marries without a reason and with her it would have been next to impossible to think up another one....

I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?

Buffoons may have serious faces behind their mask!

I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.

the fastest-growing brand of religion is of the magical 'name it and claim it' variety, in which the deity exists only to meet one's immediate, self-identified needs.

Our country is losing so much in terms of energy, in terms of paying off our debt.

Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.

I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head.