Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

I apologise to people when I need to.

I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is.

I don't think there really is much of a left in America, certainly by European standards even the left is quite right wing here.

In other words, If you don't take action, you won't get any results You are not your resume, you are your work

Conscience is a man's compass.

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

The pages of your past cannot be rewritten, but the pages of your tomorrows are blank.