Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.

My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!

When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.