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.

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.

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.

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

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor.

Be your OWN celebrity!

Live whatever draws out the magic within.

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

I support the state, but not the state-run economy. The state should intervene only to create the conditions necessary for the private sector to thrive.

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

An old fool is the worst of all fools.

When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.

My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.