People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.

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.

There's a joke in everything, the trick is finding it. The best compliment a joke can get is what Huxley said about Darwin's theory of evolution - 'Why didn't I think of that?'

That which is easy is bad for your inner life.

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.

Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.

My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.

There is no substitute for a firsthand encounter with the Word of God.

I believe in life you need to always ask for everything politely and nicely, and then if they say no you do what you wanted to do anyway

The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

Then with the losers let it sympathize, For nothing can seem foul to those that win.