If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.