We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall never collapse, never ever.

Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum and you realise witchcraft is real

South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner

Dont fight even over girlfriends. The country is full of beautiful women. If you cant get one, come to Mugabe for assistance.

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads.

Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.

Only God who appointed me will remove me.

What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.

We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.

I treat all my projects the same. They're all time capsules of where I am at the time and what I'm thinking about.

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.

Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling.

I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow

You can buy [John McCain's] book, but in a week and a half, he'll have another.

If you want to surrender to creativity, surrender to creation.

The wise man never loses his temper.

The only nickname I've ever had is Merlin, like the magician. I don't know why.