I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.

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.

I have always wanted to give you the world, so I started giving you pieces of the oceans that kept us apart.

The moment one is born, the ‘saw starts cutting’. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning.

The strength of a human being is in one's hierarchical level, characterised by say separation from physiological needs upwards.

How very different it would be to live somewhere where people weren't afraid to reveal themselves, where emotion was prized instead of hidden.

Slow motion gets you there faster.

I quit being a VS model to be a Proverbs 31 wife.

But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

A person without regrets is a nincompoop.

If you wish for light, Be ready to receive light.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.