That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

Sometimes you change to survive, and some things you don't give up, or you're too prideful, and then you think well, what's pride? Is it a good thing? Maybe it's a bad thing. That's what I look at in my life. It's always a question in my life I look at, and I never find the answer, because if I did, probably I wouldn't have books to write.

Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.