Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

All good art is an indiscretion.

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

A good art collection is emblematic of the people collecting it.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.