I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

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.

It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up.

Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues.

A writer is a messenger for the subconscious.

The borrower is servant to die lender.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

It's difficult dating, as an actor because your free time is precious. The guy I end up with someday is going to have to love traveling.

Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.