"I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people."

"God blesses us all with different views and perspectives and levels of influence and power."

"I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist."

"Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong."

"I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels."

"After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11."

"Leave history to historians."

"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."