There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

These hoes ain't loyal

There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.

My children keep me real and keep me honest.

The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.

If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.

I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.

True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action.

Men come, men go, all things remain in God.