Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

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.

But God has set no traps for us. Quite the contrary. He has summoned us to the only true and full freedom.

He put a hand on his throat, as though trying to stop the words, but they came anyway. "You're home. To me.

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

Go away. I told you, I'm not interested." She looked from his lap to his face. "Your nose is growing too.

We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices.

I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.

Nothing's done well when it's done out of self-interest.