Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?
Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me. It's my tone on the trumpet, it sounds like I'm speakin'.
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 felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music. . . but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up. ' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.
It used to be that Christian institutions and systems of dogma sustained the spiritual life of Christians. Increasingly, spirituality itself is what sustains everything else. Alan Jones is a pioneer in reimagining a Christian faith that emerges from authentic spirituality. His work stimulates and encourages me deeply
I want my son to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, "My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live. "
And when he catches me looking at him, he gives me this incredibly sweet, calm smile, and I think that we've got our lives ahead of us, our whole lives.