This book is written with an open mind and it should be read with the same

The meeting began well, meaning it had the potential for being short.

I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling.

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending on its arrangement into one narrative or another.

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.

when your happiness is someone else's happiness, that is love

Indian leaders are saying, "You don't understand our caste system. It's really a lovely thing. People are very happy about it and so on." I don't think that's quite fair.

Young men have visions, old men have dreams.

If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate.