In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

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.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Pride and love can't live in the same heart

Jesus Christ is the way of gaining a father, the path of a pure and righteous life without fornication, lust or adultery

I'm really in touch with my Italian roots. My mom's whole side of the family is there.

Freedom is never granted it is won.

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

I dont sit well. I like to move around as I talk.

I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career.

We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.

I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.