You know the expression 'God protects fools and drunks'? I qualify for both.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Take a walk on the wild side.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

We all write stories in our minds, but only few have the courage to put them on paper.

I can’t hate you. We’re too connected. I can’t hate you without hating me.

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

Good intentions but bad results; bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark.

It would be nice if you have a hit. But I don't think it's necessary to continue with my career at this point.

Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.

I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.

The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches