I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.

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.

They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

This is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws.

I don't want to just live delivered but I want to live free.

Let us be convinced that nothing can happen to us apart from the providence of God.

Onscreen, Foaly rubbed his eyelids with his index fingers. "Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Captain Short goes rogue once more. Hands up who's surprised. Anyone?

George,” said Fred, “I think we’ve outgrown full-time education.” “Yeah, I’ve been feeling that way myself,” said George lightly.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

That which takes effect by chance is not an art.

Young women growing into situations with no parents are usually material for exploitation in the brothels.