People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

That which is worth telling is not worth having.

We dont offer you any solutions necessarily but we definitely offer you a minute to escape.

Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make.

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices.

[While writing], I'll go anywhere I find that is quiet, has no internet. I have a big internet problem.

Metal is more popular than it ever has been, every expression of it.

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn't go out.