I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that.

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.

Hope is a conscious mission. Dream is an unconscious vision.

The deeds of the light are love, faith and purity.

Balance only happens in dynamic tension. Balance is giving not equal but appropriate attention to each of the various categories of your life.

Whatever circumstances may occur, just stay calm and be HAPPY for our rest of life....

If conservatives get to call universal healthcare 'socialized medicine,' I get to call private, for-profit healthcare 'soulless, vampire bastards making money off human pain.'

I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own.

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

If you want to live as a Christian, get comfortable with being uncomfortable.

Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.