Lionel [Richie] said, "Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums."

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.

Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?

It started In heaven I know Lady love may die Lady Love may grow But you know You’re my eternal love ………………….

In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

Men can go to hell! I’ll meet them there.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.