White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything - you know what I mean?

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.

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.

Oftentimes we feel like we can't say no, but YOU'LL LOWER YOUR STRESS BY NOT SAYING YES all of the time.

Why, they shot the wrong McKinley!

I shall drink no #‎ wine before it's time! OK, it's time.

anything a guy can do a girl can do better...except being stupid

It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.

The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm goes off.

I grew up only singing country. I did listen to like Debbie Gibson and other pop music, but I would only sing country music.

It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.

A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.