Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
I can't leave the studio until everything is as it should be. And I can't put a record out unless I am completely happy with it. I never want to be at a signing and hear my album playing and think, 'Oh no, I could have done that top note better.'
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

