My blindness is not a tragedy, but an opportunity to see the world in a different way.

I'm a musician, not a celebrity.

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

"To write is to wage war against forgetting."

A people without poetry is like a night without stars.

Memory is not a fixed entity but a reconstructive process influenced by context and experience.