I became a villain for doing the right thing.

The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.

What the hell did we do to deserve this?

I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.

I'd like my life back.

I don't feel my job is on the line, but of course that might change.

We need the world to put a price on carbon.

Satisfying ever-growing energy demand in a sustainable way has become the world's biggest challenge.

Screw your courage to the sticking-place

Your level of self-confidence is not something you are born with, though it is influenced by the circumstances into which you were born and grew up.

Our parents are always an important part of our inner life.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.

You’ll never regret being a good friend.

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping

I don't really have a focus, I just make music.

Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.