Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

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.

MORNINGTIDEThe wonderful works of morningtidebring the sight of luminous whiteness, a breathing whimsyamong wind-tossed sprigs of green.

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

By which I get my wealth-- And very gladly will I drink Your Honour's noble health.

There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.

I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.

It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.