Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
I love being around people who care about me, and I care about them.
I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.
I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.
One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.
There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
Mr. Braithwaite: You look like a right wanker to me, son.
I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.
Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.
