When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.

Nowadays, the media have to be there to keep you from asking too many questions, from getting together with other people who might want to do the Jeffersonian thing and call out the government.

I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.

I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.

When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.

All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.

Anywhere you hang yourself is home.