Throughout my career, my mind rarely wandered, and I was never sidetracked by distractions, no matter what I was going through off the court.
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
Bit by bit, putting it together. . . Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution, Every little detail plays a part. Having just the vision's no solution, Everything depends on execution, Putting it together, that's what counts.
Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.
Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.
If I cannot fly, let me sing.
I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.
There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding
God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it.
We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because otherwise we couldn't open any new stores, we couldn't produce new designs and no new jobs would be created. H&M would soon cease to exist.
Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.