I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designe….

My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet..

I started playing violin because I was fascinated by how violin players could play so fast. I would buy their cassettes, and learn different concerto….

There's so much to be afraid of..

Bella, there's a part of you that loves me..

I buy whatever I see, but I tend to not spend money just to spend it..

I don't feel any ethical dilemma when I write. In my memoir, I was able to write with candor about the two most difficult people in the world to writ….

You can be maybe rented but never bought..

I'm really close to my mom, but things with my dad have been different. He has dementia and watching him change, I've actually started to think that ….

Normal people, want to be accepted. Screwed up people, want to be accepted. It's one of the few things we have in common. My whole life, all I ever w….

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid.

But the places we come from don't leave us as easily as we leave them..

I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei.

You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!.

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and ….

Science is almost totally incompatible with religion..

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a….

Is not living at all not better than living badly?.

I know, I say, after he says, This is hard, for the third time. This is what happens when you have a TRM, I tell him. You make a mess. It's okay. You….

Confess and be hanged..

Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live..