Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

Women do amazing, creative, wonderful things.

One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.

I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?

Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.

I lived in New York, and I was the guy who was flying home almost every week, so there was a physical exhaustion and an emotional exhaustion for me, and a need to be home more.

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced.

We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.

I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.