I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.

The hands find a way to do what the heart wants to say

If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.

I didn't study music. I literally lived it.

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.

I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.

As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.

I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.

As one retiring chief executive said to his successor "Yesterday was the last day you heard the truth from your subordinates."

I'm very interested in people, in general.

The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

I've always been a bit of a pessimist in regard to mankind.

I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate.

The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air.

All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.

My relationship with my mother is not cute.

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.