"Just keep going - no feeling is final."

“You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.”

“I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don't care about the films. I don't care if they're flushed down the toilet after I die.”

“The point of my music is to make people feel good. When I do it right, it makes me feel good too.”

Source : "Willy Mason’s Got Gold". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2013.

“It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.”

“If it is presumed that the Kenyans will democratise in order to eat the peanuts of development assistance from the European Union... it would be a big mistake”

Source : "Western world cannot impose democracy in Africa: Ethiopian PM". AFP, January 25, 2008.

“Sweet treats are as much a part of our culture as they are our taste palettes, and it can sometimes seem as though sugary snacks are everywhere.”

Source : "The Power Of The Miracle Berry" by Homaro Cantu, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

“I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.”

“I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.”