It’s that strength of the human spirit, the strength of what’s deep down in you, that’s really going to get you anywhere and everywhere.
I’m in deep in everything, every moment of the day. I create the systems and oversee every aspect of the execution. Every mark on a sculpture and every brush-stroke on a painting is in a controlled situation, exactly as they’d be if I’d have done them myself.
When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
When people tell you you’re on the brink of death, you’ve got to dig pretty deep to get it together.
It’s always nice when you do something and it’s well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.
The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
Walking the runway with Alexander McQueen, I really had to dig deep. You’re with Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. I was the first person out on the runway, but I thought, ‘I have done the Olympics, I can do this.’
I think I’m changing the game. In that sense, I’m what Steph Curry is to basketball. Don’t get me wrong: I don’t necessarily think Steph Curry is the best basketball player, but he changed the game, so he’s going to always go down as being remembered. Now everyone wants to shoot the 3 and shoot it from deep.
I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.
You always get things that teach you and steps to grow, but there is a confidence that is gained and a deep understanding of what it means to be supported by your knowledge – not by some team that is there to create confidence; it is there within you. That takes time. That takes teachers. That takes taking risks.
There’s no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.
We are a country with great potential. We have the political will to make deep changes in a just and equitable way, to put our country back on a development path, to meet the challenges of a new world.
