You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

The hands find a way to do what the heart wants to say

If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.

I didn't study music. I literally lived it.

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.

I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.

As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.

I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.

When we were kids and believed that the game was not fair, we stopped playing. Well, the game of governance is not fair, so we need to stop playing along.

I guess I've found that I'd rather be alone than with the wrong person.

Poets sing our human music for us.

To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.