Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.

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.

Success is the progressive discovery of your assignment

Blasphemy is the crime of not taking someone's beliefs as seriously as they do.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

The scouts [in "Moneyball"] could lend an authenticity that's even beyond what we had on the page.

I believe that every artist has his or her own vision of the world; our job as artists is to find and express that vision. The most important thing is to keep exploring, yourself and your materials.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

I would rather have people be even cynical about me than to feed the negative vibe.

People forget that actors are actors, who are looking to put on the clothes and the character, and then shed it just as easily.

We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.