I gave the album [You're Under Arrest] to Quincy Jones and he loved "D Train". We couldn't call it "D Train"; it's called "MDI/Something's On Your Mind/MD2". That's on the album.

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.

We will cry and bleed and lust and love, and we will cure death. We will be the cure. Because we want it.

His hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain-drenched clothes.

It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge—some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.

Then we are living in a place abandoned by God, " I said, disheartened."Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.

Chemistry cannot be purchased.

At the end of the Peterson trial, my daughter turns to me and she goes, 'Daddy, are you going to kill Mommy?' 'Oh, honey - that's up to mommy, isn't it?

I've spent every game I've ever played making sure I'm out-working the other guy.

If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts.

I have to reinvent myself.

Hitler had this understanding that you speak to people's deepest, darkest emotions and give them voice that can be incredibly effective.