Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.

That's why ears have cartilage, to keep them from flapping.

Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.

Nobody ever says, "Can I have your beets?

Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you’re sitting in.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.