I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

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.

You'd better make friends with Time, because sooner or later it will catch up with you.

Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the kitchen than we ever will from a book.

Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?

My sangha, what I seem to attract, are people who have been practicing a long time, they're teaching, they're more serious about their spiritual journey.

I feel like men don't hold the door open as much.

Judaism was not a religion but a law.

Terrorism is everywhere. You think of the tribal terrorism of some African countries.

Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

What makes you happy is seeing someone else smile because you put it there. That's what's awesome about living in this world.