It takes a long time to sound like yourself.

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.

DEAR LIGHT : you colored my life, and then you destroy me!

Yes!" Torin threw an arm over Reese's shoulder. "Smell that in the air? A grand adventure awaits.

We only regret the chances we didn't take

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

No president has ever been elected with unemployment over 8 percent.

I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.

Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.

I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

If you develop love, you do not need to develop anything else.