I don't believe in overdoing myself.
I don't smoke or drink, but I will not tell you that I won't smoke again. Probably I will when I'm 60.
Our leaders should start talking as leaders. They talk like puppets. It might take us another 100 years to come out of this phase of corruption and mismanagement. But the good thing is that we are more aware, and more Africans are talking about these things.
I will never put anybody before my family because your family is your family.
I don't understand, who is God. I don't understand God. But to simplify that, I will say I believe in creation. They say God is the Supreme Being. I don't believe so. I don't believe God created us in his image. I believe we are too small to understand totally the cosmic wonder of the universe.
Who knows why I had to go through what I had to go through to produce the kind of music I produce today, to be one of the greatest Africans playing music, who knows?
Africans should be talking and ask questions, like why does America and Russia have the right to veto votes? These countries talk about democracy and yet are not democratic themselves.
We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.
If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.
I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.