I don't follow what everybody else does.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I'm creative; I'm not re-creative.

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.

My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.

As I sat up I turned my head to the side, but immediately straightened it again when I felt a sharp pain shoot through my neck.

To a certain degree, We all seek, life’s purpose and meaning, love, peace and joy, and knowledge, wealth and power…

My duty is to pray. I know God hears my prayers.

Human body consists of nearly 60% of water. So, wasting of water is like destroying human life.

Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves

The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding.

There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

It's you my love, you who are the stranger.

You are the smartest children i know. You just don't beleive it.