I am so appreciative of all the attention I've gotten, especially since I don't ever consider myself anything more than a fan.
I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.
Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself.
If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.
I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.
I usually find several ways to express myself: different moods, different days, different voices, different things, 'I'm lighthearted today, I'm gonna do this.'
Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground.
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me
Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.
Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.
I promised to always bring up a glass of water to her before we go to bed, and she promised to never let me dress myself.
I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.
Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.
I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.
