When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

I have one abiding religion-human liberty.

I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.

For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be finished, but we all long, I think, to see the plays fleshed out on stage and I'm exactly like that. Yes, I'm not satisfied until I actually see it on stage.