The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.
The big thing is that if you don't try something, you'll always wonder. What could that have been like? What if. . . ?
Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.
Never think that someone else knows what's best for you. Trust your way and don't ask for so much advice. Learn how to be quiet and still enough to hear your own voice. It's up to you: Your voice will either be silenced or will get to roar.
Make time in your life to listen to your own voice. Do not let it get drowned out by others. Your voice is yours and yours alone. Stay in touch with it and use it.
Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.
My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.
I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.
A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction
I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.
I tend to work in layers. There's a huge orchestra in the film, but I also record a lot things with very intimate groups, and I like to be able to use the textures of those intimate groups.