It takes you years to learn how to play 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.

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Letting go doesn't have to mean walking away. It means the things that hurt you don't hurt you anymore.

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

If Christ does not appear to meet his 144,000 faithful shortly after midnight on February 6th or 7th, it means that my calculations, based on the Bible, must be revised.

Billy copied Casey to a 'T.'

I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.