I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It was like, back there!

When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.

Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.

As time progressed, my songwriting developed out of my bass, because that's all I could do. I decided to take it as far as it could go and to use my skill as a tool.

A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.

I'm not crazy when I replace everything that people consider as a stability, safety and wealth with the right to think of the moment I had spent with you.

When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred"....but realized later "They can take everything from me except my mind and heart"Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom

I could never tell what was going on inside the pretty heads of the girls that Naoko brought along, and they probably couldn't understand me, either.

Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you - that's how I view it, because I try to see the positive in things.

Art destroys silence.

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable "Hoc" produced for the world!