When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

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.

I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things.

Power without moral direction is the most dangerous force in the world.

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.

You are so much better off on your own than with the wrong person.

When the music hits, you feel no pain, to quote Bob Marley. But it’s true. It’s like all art and creation: You’re completely in the moment, and you just feel free.

Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode.

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.

God will not make you do something you don't want to do - He will just make you wish you had.