“Obviously we were having an effect, because all these people were clam...” — George Harrison Quote

Obviously we were having an effect, because all these people were clamouring to meet us. Like Muhammad Ali, for instance.

The fact that we're all here in these bodies means that we're not perfected.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea.

The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily.

My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.

I heard Tony Bellew is looking for a fight with the winner of the Muhammad Ali Trophy. I hope he will see me.

Muhammad Ali was my idol, and I always say, if Muhammad Ali had told me the exact same thing my mother, the principal, the security guard, my brothers... you know, the same thing they were telling me that I didn't listen to, I would have listened, just because it came from Muhammad Ali.

Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy.