When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

Blame is the cowards way out.

Boys keep working over your goals these girls ain't going anywhere.

It’s not about money or connections — it’s the willingness to outwork and out-learn everyone… And if it fails, you learn from what happened and do a better job next time

I was nine when I figured out it’s better to be respected than liked.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness.

If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.

I have made my thoughts on it (sledging) well known over the last couple of years. We are more than happy to be talking to opposition players in the field so long as it is not personal or abusive.

I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.