And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.
Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.
Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.
History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.
The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
I would love to play a show with Kanye West. That would be amazing. I want to play a show with Tom Petty or Bruce Springsteen. It would be really fun, especially to stick around, watch their show and watch how they work a crowd. It's really a wonderful thing.
Who you are moment to moment is just a story.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.