Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.

I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.

Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.

A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper

I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

When you’re always scheming about ways to make money, it’s like a part of you is lost.

When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown back!...Since imagination is hungry for novelty, and ungoverned, it gropes at random

I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

President Clinton bankrupted Chrysler so that Italians could buy it to ship jobs overseas to China.

The faster you want to get rich, the more accurate with numbers you must be.

Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.

I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.