"For all that you are and all that you do, and for the many ways you make my heart sing."

“Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.”

“I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.”

“And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you’re losing money year after year... that’s not life even, that’s like death. That’s eternal damnation.”

Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2008). “The Off Season”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House.”

“I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.”

“I would be comfortable to bat anywhere,”

“The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”

“A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.”

Source : Interview in Peter Graham's, The New Wave, 1968.