I do not like assassins, or men of low character.
I can tell. I'm gifted with that, you know. When I hear that the tempo is slightly off, it's hard for me.
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.
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
Nobody kills me and lives to tell about it.
I try not to listen to other music. I have to keep my mind open for what's coming in as a songwriter. If I go into the gas station and pay for gas, whatever song was playing when I was in there is in my head for the next few days and I can't change the channel.