So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that.