I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her.

I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but I want to STAY ALIVE.

Ethiopia has always held a special place in my own imagination and the prospect of visiting attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African. Meeting the emperor himself would be like shaking hands with history.

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

The way people look at me these days - that's the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who've attained a certain position are human.

I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.