Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

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

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.

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

Everyone isn't going to embrace your value, but that doesn't mean you need to go and change your price.

He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.

I keep my center by [surrounding] myself with like-minded people who I can call and visit with and simply be with.

I really think you stare at yourself and you see things.

We must always be aware of the fact that the body, soul and mind are to be trained simultaneously, for otherwise it would be impossible to gain and maintain the magic equipoise.

...the initial position is decisive Zugzwang.

It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.

Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.