Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.

Taken together, our songs are like a mural of our lives.

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

Happiness is not always the answer let the other emotions out is sometimes what is needed

Maybe it takes tragedy to create paradise.

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.

A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.

I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.

When in doubt, take the next step.

Love is a spirit all compact of fire.