If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song gets momentum and gets away from you, that's a good sign.

Love, you drive me to distraction.

Remember that there are hundreds of thousands of things you can eat that are not cheese.

People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

Every day things change, but basically they stay the same.

I think making things that aren't necessarily shiny, happy feelings, putting them in that environment is sometimes an easy way to deal with the ugliness. Like, I know that as a kid, that I found - I think I learned this a bit from my mother - that if I could be as warm around strangers, no matter how strange or what different environment I was in, that people tended to be warm back.