The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!

Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.

There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

When I'm scared - and I'm always scared when I have to face an audience, when I have to read a review, when I publish a book...then, I think of my grandfather. My grandfather was this strong, tough Basque who would never bend....What would he do? Well, he would go ahead, close his eyes, and drive forward. You do it and the spirit that is within you....is there.