Each day you don't practice is one more day you have to practice to get better. The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.
We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.
We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.
That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.
My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.
I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important.
Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
I don't care about preaching to the converted.
The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.
Someone doesn't think immediately, "I want to be a lobbyist. "
I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.