Be grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings.
If you love people enough, they will give you everything.
I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.
I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.
I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.
There's nothing more threatening than a powerful woman, and there's nothing more threatening to the current order of things than women powerfully owning their own narrative. It's so threatening to people, to women as well, and it's threatening the order of things.
It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.
Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.
So in the near future, two or three years, people in Kyrgyzstan will experience a better life.