I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.
I always make the joke that I go home, to one of my homes, to go and do laundry so I can go on the road again.
I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.
My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are.
I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.
I am a forward-looking person and live in the moment to build for the future.
I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of. . . my father was a health inspector; my mother was a social worker. And I was pretty smart in school. So they expected me to be some kind of academic - schoolteacher, or doctor, lawyer - and they were very disappointed when I told them I wanted to be a musician.
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.
First there was the word. A Course in Miracles says that prayer is the "medium of miracles. " It's the realm of thought where we are aligned with the thought of God and therefore in a co- creative mode. It's where we surrender our minds to His mind and become empowered.
When I set out to write, I want to write something that will rip your heart out.