Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives..

In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with..

With God, it's possible to be content wherever we are, with whatever we have..

I find it very difficult not to write in any sort of Sudanese style. With Sudanese music, there are very specific things that happen with the syncopa….

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before..

I'm happy to be where I am and how everything has turned out..

I do like to be surprised..

I am conversational - I just like to engage and talk about things..

Style lasts forever and taste doesn't..

I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of phy….

I'm not just anybody.' 'No, indeed. Nobody is..

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop..

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock..

You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good..

These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!.

Every sentence is the result of a long probation..

I grill, therefore I am..

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find..

The more you invest in your happiness, the more happiness will invest in you..

I have a family to feed..

Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more..