Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

You can sing if you have a great voice, but to connect that instrument to the text and connect it to the subtext, what lies underneath and the emotion, is indeed a rare talent.

We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.

What works in one medium does not necessarily always work in the other.

New life, new hopes.

Best trust the happy moments. ... The days that make us happy make us wise.

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

That's a real sign of the times - can you imagine Nick Cave wearing a hoodie? He may not wear one, but he definitely sells them.

Unfortunately, the war has cost America greatly - politically - throughout the world.

Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

Everybody knows how lazy he is. One day the neighbors saw Fang mow the lawn and I got three Get Well cards.

If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.

Never lose the groove to find a note.