It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

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.

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.

what if I fall? oh, my darling, but if you fly?

Let our love chase all clouds awayHold my hand and feel the dayYour footsteps guide my steps all alongBeneath my skin your veins belong.

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doin

Sometimes you must give up on certain people, but it should be mandatory that you will never ever give up on yourself.

We must be as pure as our music.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.

When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.

Life has a way of working out the way it's meant to.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.