We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience.

I love the intimacy of small venues, I really do, I like that look that people have that they feel like they're special and they can hear and they can see the band as well.

I love dressing up. I'm from a huge African family and grew up in a really colorful place. The way I dress reflects my environment and wanting to take people into a fantasy world for half an hour.

I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove you under, for all those times, mean on gin, you rammed words into my belly. (p. 52)

You worry less about misplacing a star when the whole sky is yours.

That night there was more than one killer in the forest, the next day a lot more ghosts.--The Book of Brin

We create our fate every day we live.

Doubt is the father of invention.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

What is life without the radiance of love?

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.