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.

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.

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.

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

Life is miraculous and love is the miracle.

Choose empathy over apathy.

You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.

I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished.

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the "pay for use" binary shareware programs.

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy.

You need to modulate that unwarranted ire, buddy. I'm not your 'ho and you ain't my pimp