If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's such a funky kid and he's gifted. He's like a little genius.

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.

There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.

I am ceaselessly waiting for you in the burning fire of waiting forever. It may not end today, tomorrow, or ever.

It had filled my time - given me quiet, steadfast company with those characters, who did not exist and never would, but somehow made me feel less ... alone.

One of the most important skills we can develop for collapse is thecapacity to listen.

Mom, how come you never go outside?""I told you, I'm a vampire.

Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.

Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.

Anything is possible if you get off your 'BUT' and STAND!