"I started lessons when I was three and a half. In the beginning I just played a little but, when I was five, I played…"

"I'd play the piano at 5am."

"You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yo…"

"So often I have said in the past, when a war is over, the statesmen should not go into conference one with another, b…"

"the more violent the boy, the more I see that he creates, and when he kicks the others with his big boots, treads on …"

"Israel’s actions are fundamentally at odds with the values that Eurovision claims to uphold — peace, unity, and respe…"

"People who live in totalitarian countries experience educational brainwashing and real fear of the government. They a…"

"I kept on reading, observing and reflecting on China’s political and social problems. Then in that year I suddenly fe…"

"I felt a narrowing of freedom of speech. The change was very pronounced when you compare Xi Jinping to previous eras …"

"This fear of the power of the totalitarian state is something normal people cannot understand."