Self

“Complete freedom starts within yourself and then it goes without.”

“I was ashamed of the artist that I was, at that point in time.”

“And third, you have to believe in yourself.”

“For the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal improvement.”

“The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator’s place and laugh at his own misfortunes.”

“The best thing about Krav Maga is its simplicity.”

“I'm rich in spirit. I have a rich spirit. I'm rich in soul, not financially, because that doesn't move me.”

“The truth is that I really love performing. I adore being Edina every time I do it. It is like having a holiday from yourself.”

“Life shows you the gifts that you already have.”

“It isn't how good people may say you are, you know yourself whether you have made good; it's what you think when you lie in bed at night, considering what you have achieved that day, which really counts.”

“I never put those labels or identity metrics on myself.”

“In the personal self, the social is individualised.”

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

“My music is about my life and I try to keep it as real as possible.”

“If you understand yourself [from the outside] too well, you paralyse yourself.”

“I felt abhorred by myself. And that's what changed my mind.”

“I will never stop being surprised that people like my music.”

“Before I was ever an artist, that was always who I was.”