To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash and where previously the brain held a dead fact the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.

Education is important because first of all people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace and we should not take that for granted.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

When all of your wishes are granted many of your dreams will be destroyed.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

My public image is so low-key but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

By age seven I used to comb my hair for performances just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.