There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.

Femi Fani Kayode is my boy. Provide him food, he will eat and then sing for you. He’s a smart boy

I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.

Even Jesus Christ cannot conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria.

To feed our people we must first feed our soil

My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

School is not meant for the poor, only for the rich.

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

Democracy should be nurtured and sustained in Nigeria and in our part of the world

What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.

It isn't important how much you are giving but it is very important that you are giving.

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

Do all that you say you are going to do and don't aggress against other people or their property. That's the whole of the law. I can live with a law like that.

I'm comfortable with time. Time will change.

I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

Hope is necessary. It's a necessary concept. And Barack Obama didn't just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes.

I can't imagine loving somebody more than I love Wyatt [my son]. I can't. I just don't know how that's possible.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

I'm always learning new things.