I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.

Small, deliberate actions inspired by your true desires create a life you love.

Everybody has a purpose.

The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.

I feel like I know how to write plot.

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.