For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

I don't care if you love me or not. I'll love you anyway.

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.

Seek to be served, and you become a servant. Seek to serve others, and you become a master.

Putting a piece of you in your protagonist adds depth and merges the worlds of fiction and reality.

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.

I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

Whether it is sunny or rainy, make your walk to your destination!

We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we think of birthing as something done while lying down.

Your testimony doesn't mean anything if it is not your testimony. So every song that I write it happened at one point in my life or another.

I've done yoga, and I want to start Pilates soon.

We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.