"I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles."

"I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy."

"I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe."

"My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point."

"'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once."

"For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony."

"Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word."

"I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it."