Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work.

There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.

You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.

To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.