With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.

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.

You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really, " he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.

Maintain a receptive attitude!

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money.

I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.

There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.

I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.

O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by.

Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income.

The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.