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When you see or hear something beautiful, it's like that thing is transmitting a kind of energy, and if that energy helped create the work, the only thing I can do is play it when I finally show the work.

Nigeria is a difficult place. It is not a country for the faint of heart. On a good day, when our larger cities such as Abuja, Lagos, and Kano are filled with the teeming masses going in so many different directions, flogged by the heat and sun, bumping down uneven roads all in the name of 'the hustle,' it can appear chaotic.

The oil can is mightier than the sword.

Frankly, the idea that exposed legs are some sort of sexual provocation is an argument one would expect to hear from a religious fundamentalist, not a feminist.

Music is what I do pretty much all the time. I'm always in the studio. I'm always rehearsing for shows. Always doing shows.

White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.

Fame is a thing that happens when you do something you love - nobody wants to be famous for the wrong reasons. It's not my goal, but if being more famous means I can get more music out, that's cool.

I am the perfect version of me.

Our understanding of how DNA informs our health and development is advancing at an incredible pace.

Creativity involves having curiosity and wanting to find what is better.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

The goal was not only to teach people the Bible and minister to people personally and spiritually, but also to build a church to be community focused.

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

I see football as a bit like a stairway, and you have to climb it bit by bit. First, you have to play good football so that you get to play for a good team. Then, hopefully you achieve such a level that you are invited to play for your national side, in time for a World Cup, if possible.

I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my way and told God that, in the future, I would only write books that glorified Him. That meant I had to buy back some of my contracts.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.

I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!