I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.

When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.

Collecting is my passion.

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.

I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.

I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

It's odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there's barley any separation between who we are and who they are.

This should tell you everything you need to know about guys. They only go after what they know they can get. We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap...

I never tell the audience what to think of me. When I talk, how you consume it is up to you.

My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.

It works for me, the way I play drums and the things I do but I also would like to know proper technique. Mainly for health - to last longer, be able to play longer.

Senior members of the security establishment have not been entirely cooperative - let's put it that way - with the operations and still maintain contacts with FDLR leadership.

When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave.

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.