The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops.
Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy.
In this day and age, especially with all the media and television, social media, and the Internet, we are constantly being compared and comparing ourselves to others' lives and journeys. Keep your eyes on your own road.
You can never be happy when you're constantly comparing yourself to others. Keep your eyes ahead.
I feel like people grow the most when they step outside of the box that they are used to. For me, it's constantly challenging myself to step outside of my comfort zone. As soon as you do that, then you grow, but then you get comfortable again.
Sometimes when you don't care, people are attracted to that.
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
Make certain decisions only once. . . We can make a single decision about certain things that we will incorporate in our lives and then make them ours - without having to brood and re-decide a hundred times what it is we will do and what we will not do.
I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.
From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost. . . .