A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do.

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.

Escape is a process, not a pill.

Determine how you are going to measure your success.

There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world.

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.

Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.

Love without attachment is light.

[Hillary Clinton] needs to accomplish a lot. She also has to provide a unifying theme for all the things she wants to do.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.