If you're going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.

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 feel naturally florid when I look up again. I look like a flourish. I look the way the word galore feels. I feel uncultivated beautiful, like pure, organic allure.

My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.

There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.

The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.

All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.

Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have.

We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?.