"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.
We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.
Music should make you feel something, not just sound pretty.
My dream is to bring Chinese music to the world.