All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.

It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things.

I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions and ponderances around the complexities of race and class and culture wherever I am.

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.

I believe that beauty is a basic service.

I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.

The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.

I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."

The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way of connecting it to an issue we already now how to care about.

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

More often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward.

Andy Gullahorn is my favorite new musical discovery of the past five years. He's a brilliant writer, a fine musician and a generous spirit.

You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.

Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

I know there are some voices calling for a punitive deal that punishes Britain. That would be an act of calamitous self-harm for the countries of Europe, and it would not be the act of a friend.