Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted.

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

Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

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

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

People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They come here. If you walk in the streets of San Francisco, you hear all the languages. You smell all the foods. You listen to the music from everywhere. There's great diversity.