I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.

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.

Patience is my virtue, but only in Math, Daddy, ” - Ashley

Clarity affords focus.

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it

Together, we're going to finish the job we started.

When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame.

Simple, yet effective!

I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they're doing. People don't look at me. They don't even know I'm there.

Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.