I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was a wonderful mentor and really, really funny, you know.
When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.
I don't talk about the past.
The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.
Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you.
People say I'm wearing heels because I'm short. I wear heels because the women like 'em.
Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.
Time is a mind construct. It's not real.
I've always understood the two to be intertwined: sexuality and spirituality. That never changed.
Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.
Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.
A strong spirit transcends rules.
To create something from nothing is one of the greatest feelings, and I would - I don't know, I wish it upon everybody. It's heaven.
There's a dark side to everything.
Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.
What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.