I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.
The only thing I care about is the art. If I can't be creative, I don't really see the point in doing anything else.
"The stories we tell ourselves about who we are and where we come from shape our identity and our destiny."