"Truth is like the sun; you can shut it out for a time, but it's not going away."

想要得富贵福泽，这要看天意，由不得自己；要想成为贤人君子，主要靠自己，由不得天意。

"We are all the sum of our stories, and biography helps us understand the equation."

Every album is a snapshot of where I was at that time in my life.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.