You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.

I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort

The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.

Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy.

Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.