I listen a lot to the incredible young artists who are coming through, which is something that just wasn't possible during Apartheid. That's the way I learn.

I knew South Africa was going to change; you can't keep people down forever. It's unnatural. Somehow something had to crack, and it did.

I always knew I was going to come home at some point, and I wanted to have a name for myself.

I just wanted to sing, and I didn't want my music to be unique to the US. I wanted Africans to hear it and know that South African music was still alive.

The author & the reader "know" each other: they meet on the bridge of words

Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

I am a man of principle. I will stick by my principles. I will tell the truth no matter where the chips fall.

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.

Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.

My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. Listing what body parts he has broken

If people fear that they have to choose between their job or fixing the climate, they will always protect their job. Because that's how they live to see tomorrow.

When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.

Number was the substance of all things.