My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

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.

When you discover your gift the whole world will seek you

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next

In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space.

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to.

Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.

Most ideas are a bit scary, and if an idea isn't scary, it's not an idea at all.

Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.