The important thing is that you've got to have ideas in the first place. And you need to have the passion to implement them.

I am a strong believer in the principle of growth.

Each period has its own appeal.

Each year, several million people are looking for new clothes. The fashion they are looking at cannot be too expensive, but it has to be stylish.

In the early 1990s, I briefly got involved in Italian politics. But that intermezzo lasted just two years and had little success. I also found politics emotionally empty.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!

You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University.

We have something more reliable than a poll that changes everyday.

Valentine's Day - a nice holiday because it's the first day of the rest of your wife.

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.

I think it's important that all 50 years of rock 'n' roll live in the same place, because it's all connected.