When we edit the music, I always remember, "It's my band. Save me a place to play."

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 law or any practice that is not for the good of the people must be changed.

A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money.

Loneliness is the world of self-discovery where undiscovered you buds.

Wake up, Life is a gift realize that!

We usually can't know how, and we probably should not even ask, how our lives contribute to a better world.

Painting is a mosaic of colors weaved into a seamless whole.

The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it.

I'm thankful that I proved myself in music which is my first love, my first passion before I got involved in this media. I am hoping to bring it back to the music now.

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

I have a new joke today. Martha Stewart's on suicide watch. They had to unplug all of her ovens.