The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing.

I have always felt more at home in a culture that has nothing to do with the one I was born and brought up in.

To throw a stone in one's own garden.

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.