Self

“It isn't how good people may say you are, you know yourself whether you have made good; it's what you think when you lie in bed at night, considering what you have achieved that day, which really counts.”

“I never put those labels or identity metrics on myself.”

“In the personal self, the social is individualised.”

“My music is about my life and I try to keep it as real as possible.”

“The self is something which has a development; it is not initially there, at birth, but arises in the process of social experience and activity.”

“If you understand yourself [from the outside] too well, you paralyse yourself.”

“I felt abhorred by myself. And that's what changed my mind.”

“I will never stop being surprised that people like my music.”

“Before I was ever an artist, that was always who I was.”

“Saya ini seperti pisau yang jelek tapi diasah terus sehingga bisa jadi tajam.”

“If you have all my multiples then you have me entirely.”

“It’s not about you, it’s about the story.”

“Wartość człowieka budujemy całe życie. I dla siebie i dla pożytku świata.”

“You write your life story by the choices you make.”

“Le personnage d’Abou Salim était un peu moi.”

“I'm a hopeless, disgusting romantic.”

“It's the 23 million people of Taiwan who cannot accept the so-called "one China" principle.”

“Sou um instrumento da minha arte, sou meu próprio violino.”