The music speaks for itself!

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.

The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.

If our purpose of life is live in peace and happiness, then why are we always preparing for war?

Uncanny situations

a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.

When I am in pain, I must know that beauty always has been and always will be. This is as close to eternity as I need to be.

I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.

I saw it written and I saw it say Pink moon is on its way And none of you stand so tall Pink Moon gonna get you all

I've never really been one to stop and smell the roses.