Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.