I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

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.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

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.

The thoughts that you will never make it comes to every person who ever did something great in their lives

If you can learn to be more trusting you will find how easier it is to go on to manifest successfully.

Communication is the key for any global business.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

There's definitely something broken in the music industry clearly. Partly from downloading and partly the obstacles for discovery and listener choice and artist distribution are gone.

It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

If your selfish goal will be useful to humanity, then let your selfish goal be triumphant!

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.