Like Ron Lorman's always sayin', "Na-na-na-na-na," you know what I mean? I don't need that in the studio.

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.

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

And what I learned is this: there are places in the world war one feels new, young, and alive again.

It's the little things that count, hundreds of them.

[Fences] is just a great play to bring to the screen.

It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to puzzle out the ways of doing it.

I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

To actually be a part of a brand that you look up to, and a legendary one at that, is super dope.

Remember that nutrition is 90%; exercise is 10%.