One of the worst things that happened to black people in America historically is integration. People ask me why I say that and I tell them it's because we gave up all of our control.
I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.
And then computers got to a point where you could just record directly into them. So when that happened, funny enough, I thought, Right, I'm going to learn how to do this because then I can understand that part.
People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.
Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.
I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.
I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.
Touring with Brian May was like a dream come true that happened early in my career. He inspired me with the way he harmonized and layered his guitar sounds.
I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.
I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.
There were the usual types of things that happen, in a production, like logistical bullshit, and this and that and the other. That's the sort of stuff that happened. But I never felt, in a creative sense, that we were ever veering into a place that I hadn't signed on for.
Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.
With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.
You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.
To this day, to this very day, except for television, I've never had a writer. Anything I've ever done on the stage, happened on the stage and I developed it from there. It started doing impressions and jokes - which I did very poorly. To this day I can't tell a joke. That sounds nuts, but it's true. I exaggerate it and it becomes a joke. Everything I've ever done I've done out on the stage and it became a performance over many many years.
If you learn from an experience, that's good - so nothing bad happened to you.
How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I belong. . . You used to be alright What happened?
The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.
It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened
You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem to be very good at drawing it!