Schlepping all of the equipment is the part I hate more than anything.

The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character.

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record it, it comes back to haunt you sometimes.

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

Nigeria is one country, one people and one nation.

The world is cheapened when everyone sees it with a marketers eye.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least.

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it.

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

There's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an addiction.