Create and preserve the image of your choice.
Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing it. Many people attend a football game merely for the crowd, the excitement, the color.
Practice like it means everything in the world to you. Perform like you don't give a damn.
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.
There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.
There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.
It seems like every time I break up with someone they try to take all my friends. It sucks because your friends are the people you need the most when you are in pain.
All of a sudden inscriptions appeared on walls. Signs appeared. And that 'no' exploded all over India, in an act of pride that surprised even me. Then even the political parties, all of them, even the deputies in Parliament, said no: it's better to die of hunger than be taken for a nation of beggars.
I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don't need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian.
I'm totally anonymous until I open my bloody mouth and people recognize the voice.