I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

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.

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

The search for Jesus is about reconciling loss and tragedy to God and us.

I felt so fine I didn't once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I'd always feared most.

It's not what you do, it's what it means.

There is an inexorable correlation between leadership and change.

There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

Holy water at my wrists and behind my ears; my version of Eau de Don'tbiteme

[Mel Gibson] played this kind of sadistic motorcycle cop. He was terrific. And he had this great sense of visual comedy.

I decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the perfect stuff around.