“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.”

Genealogists live in the past lane.

We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds. ‘Cause there are so many sleeping people.

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you’ll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you’re gonna be rewarded.

The story of love is hello and goodbye, until we meet again.

When I’m sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles.

Don’t use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments.

If it was up to me, there wouldn’t be no such thing as the establishment.

I’m a million miles away, and at the same time I’m right here in your picture frame.

My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

You have to forget about what other people say, when you’re supposed to die, or when you’re supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.

My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don’t get them together nobody else will.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

You have to be a freak in order to be different.

All I’m gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It’s the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That’s why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in.

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

Happiness is a little bit of art on a sad day.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.

I know that my son was an honest person and an honest artist, and what he gave from himself through his art was the depth of his humanity.

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.