I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.
Art is my life and my life is art.
I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone’s expectations.
My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.
All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper – just running down the edges of different countries and continents, ‘looking for something’.
I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.
Half my life is an act of revision.
Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I’ve left the opera house.
The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there’s no connection.
I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.
I could never imagine ever in my life that I’d be on the side of The Louvre.
I can’t dance to save my life.
My life is actually empty, so I feel like I’m lying to everyone by pretending to be happy on the outside.
Somebody said to me this morning, ‘To what do you attribute your longevity?’ I don’t know. I mean, I couldn’t have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I’ve lived the last 30 years!
I’m not much of a family man. I’m just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don’t want to live my life for them.
Edinburgh is my adopted home. It’s a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it happened.
My life motto is ‘Do my best, so that I can’t blame myself for anything.’
Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it’s narcissistic and pointless.
I just bring a black turtleneck sweater everywhere – it’s the greatest purchase of my life. Period.
I am grateful to all the ups and downs in my life.
I don’t fear nobody, and that’s how I live my life. I live my life with no fears.
There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say again how sorry I am to those I let down and then strive to go forward with a greater sense of humility and purpose, and with gratitude to those who stood with me during a very difficult chapter in my life.
I have to say I’ve worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.
