If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

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.

God knows what should be your priority and what should be beneficial for you

In order to show your best skills and talents-you must share them, or no one will ever know they exist- Lorenzo Victory

If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing.

Because I don't think it's true. I don't think corruption is endemic to the process in Annapolis at all. It's the exception, not the rule.

Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.

God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.

I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I'm always thinking. I've got a lot of ideas for lyrics and shows. I have a notepad by the side of the bed and voice recorders around the house.

President Obama and the congressional Democrats have certainly been responsive.

Why don't you say "What?" if you like to sleep with your own sister.