My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.

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.

What we believe about something often creates the outcome we experience.

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night.

The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

My instinct is to be very controlling.

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.

So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.

If we can not smile, we cannot help other people to smile.

Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.