I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
With 'A Million Miles,' I still was proving myself as a writer and as a vocalist. It gave me the platform to tour again.
There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.
Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.
I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.
If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.
