In other words, an instrument should be an extension of you; it's supposed to sound like you - the way you walk, the way you dress, you know.

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.

I came home from work one day and felt compelled to write a book about free will.

All I wanted was for my mom to say, 'I love you, and I'm here for you.' I never got that.

If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.

Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat though—a cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If he’s in a good mood.

I'm not really an impersonator.

I love that feeling of, you know, we are women, we are so different, our imperfections are what make us unique and beautiful.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.

The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.