Inspiration comes from everywhere, but especially from the people around me.

I'm not afraid to stand up for what I believe in.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

You can't manage what you don't measure.

Dream big, work hard, and never give up on what you believe in.

I'm not a politician, I'm not a preacher, I'm just a vessel.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

I believe in the magic of classical music; it transcends time and speaks to the soul.

I'm not a princess. I'm a queen.