There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.
Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.
The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.
Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.
The illusion is we are only physical.
I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.
Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.
I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when you see me live, I'm a singer-songwriter.
The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten. In that World Open final, Ross got me. It was exactly five years and eight months. I was unbeaten for another nine months after that defeat.
While we were shooting the movie, we shot in the actual hotel in Hong Kong where it all went down, the Mira Hotel. Laura Poitras was coming to Hong Kong to do a screening of Citizenfour, and she ended up staying at the Mira Hotel. It was her first time back in Hong Kong, and I ran into her in the elevator. Literally I had just finished shooting one day, and I came back to the hotel and she was in the elevator.