Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.

I love performing. I shall perform until the day I die.

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.

I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the same thing. But I have loved and believed in art and the idea of universal brotherhood so much, that I have put everything I have into them, and I have been blessed.