I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

I never wished something extraordinary; you are more than everything.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.

It's perfectly normal that extraordinary things happen to me. I'm an exceptional person. Oh, don't think I'm boasting. I mean to say that, unfortunately, I'm exceptional and that, unfortunately, I can't live by the rules. I must make my own.