Food makes my mind sluggish.

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.

Managing excuses means not excusing yourself from the responsibility you need to take with your thought, words, and actions.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

When I opened up in "Gaslight," for instance, playing that narky maid, that all came about from my experience and my training up to that point, and so nothing was wasted.

Becoming integrated and whole is the spiritual path. The body is your vehicle. Your job is to learn about yourself from your experiences and change yourself. This is spiritual growth.

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

Honestly, I just want to keep people awake. Or at least give you one joke to go to bed with.

Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and more an individual.

How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?