You can't compete with Sweets' sound and time feel. It's impossible.

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.

Knowing leads to caring.

The food you eat can be either the safe & most powerful medicine or the slowest poison.

Listen to your instincts. It will guide you to the right path.

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

If women experienced the ecstasy of birth, they would have the high that would get them through the hormonal changes of the next week. Your body and your inner wisdom give you that high.

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

I would have thought that they [Boris Johnson and Nigel Farag] would have had a plan,instead of developing a plan they are leaving the boat.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.