I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people.

I have stopped waiting on our leaders. We have been forced to fear the system. But unless we change our ways and the way we see each other, we won't move forward.

My heart's desire is to be recognised in Nigeria.

I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.

I am 100% there when I'm doing what I'm doing when I'm onstage and recording. I don't ever want to look back at any moment and say to myself that I felt uncomfortable with who I am.

I have my own way to stay focused. I work out every day. I exercise. I swim. I meditate. I breathe.

In Nigeria, if you say you're a singer, people say, 'So what? Everyone sings.' In Germany, my voice stood out more.

The cultural differences between Germany and Nigeria were extreme. The way they dress, the way they carry themselves, their religion. For two years I was overwhelmed.

When you're alone is when you can count your friends.

He does good to himself who does good to his friend.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

I have supped mead with lords and ladies; so to have I slumbered in nameless lanes and gored upon mutton.

Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum; Prithee, my brother, Into my garden come!

A girl could be sitting on her computer, trying to get noticed by me, and not knowing she's the future Mrs. Justin Bieber.

Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.

I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.

Making a movie in Hollywood is a bit like playing a board game, where you have to throw a six to start.

Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.