I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts my father was an evangelist a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland spreading the gospel.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.

For the past few years I was the more visible Asian performer and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

With the success of the last three or so years when a lot of people start treating you differently there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say 'Hey wake up!'

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event a lot more my event.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

I have decided to fight for my country because we have build a success story in Guanajuato with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.