"To me, watercolor is a Western medium, so when I feel like I am using a Western manner I will use English to sign my name."

“There is nothing that special to see when looking at me.”

“I was still young when I missed Beijing. I was favourite to win a medal but I knew I had time. My coach advised me to stay at school and finish my exams. Even if I had gone and won the Olympics, I might not have handled the pressure. So I moved on.”

“Ever since I was a small child, Ive had this feeling - its in my nature, and so its not even pretentious - that if everyones going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.”

“All oppression creates a state of war.”

“I was with Miles Davisfor a couple of years as his bass player, and it was a beautiful experience. After two years I said to him, "Listen, man, I want to leave your band." He goes, "Why?" I said, "Because I want to develop not just as a bass player, but I want to get more into composition, into producing, and I'm working with Aretha Franklin and Luther Vandross and all these guys, and I want to really see how much I can grow and develop." He actually gave me his blessing.”

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“I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.”

“A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.”

Source : "Leaving Cheyenne". Book by Larry McMurtry, 1963.

“I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I'd be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out.”