I'll always be poor in my mind.

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I should say play, because if you love it, that's what it amounts to I haven't found any shortcuts, and I've been looking for a long time.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

You shape your own destiny.

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care.

It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.

His lips are against my ear and I feel the warmth of his body surrounding me, caging me in, comforting me.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an "elite" class of celebrities better than the common people has always made my stomach turn.

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.

I urge you to be bold. Life isn't changed from the balcony. Get onto the floor and dance, dance, dance.

My son thinks I'm hilarious, but he's only 1.

When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.

Peter also uses his wig as a cereal bowl... He'll some times have some, like, Top Ramen in it.

The average performer stops when they face fear. Iconic producer accelerates once they get frightened.