You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.

You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.