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I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.

There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave.

So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.

Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.