“In my opening seconds, I would say, "It's great to be here," then move to several other spots on the stage and say, "No, it's great to be here!" I would move again: "No, it's great to be here!”

“Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.”

“Love is a flame that turns me around,I float on its currents, I dance to its sound.As I move past the tears that fall from my eyesThere’s nothing to say except to ask whyYou can’t be here.”

“I spread the whole earth out as a map before me. On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety.”

“Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master…Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon.But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.”

“I am here. I am in the present tense. I'm not always here, and sometimes here is a very difficult place. Sometimes it is a labyrinth, or a Minotaur, or a rope I can neither let go of nor follow. It's hard to find the right words, but I guess I would say that it's something like feeling the floor. And that it is my privilege to feel it.”