Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.
Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.
You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup.
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.
