"So that was another experience for me. I was often doing things that people were insisting on telling me you should do, something more commercial in your career - so as to be able to do what you like afterwards. Two or three times in my life I have done this, and that was a mistake - but we learn from mistakes. I followed this advice, feeling that it might be the way to do what I really wanted on my own terms. But you can learn things from anything. Anyway this whole path was a zigzag among very strange things. Sometimes I was in the theatre. I was also studying drama; then I was studying Byzantine music; then I was studying classical singing, going to various teachers and various schools. I went to a school of drama, to the Greek art theatre of Károlus Khún, which was considered to be the most difficult and severe. I would just go around all these different things that had to do with experimenting with different sounds, with different arts, with ways to use your body, with ways to open up your creativity or your ability to communicate. I think that all these things made me what I am now and what I'm trying to become, slowly, slowly, as a person."

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