I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

Curiosity is a great antidote to fear.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.

Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.

My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.

Don't be in a hurry to achieve your dreams. Take a day to play with your kids and relax - your dreams will still be there tomorrow.

Men aren't an inexhaustible resource, even for a king. Soldiers must have faith that their sacrifices are worthwhile.

Happiness does not completely depend on comforts or opulence. Even a pauper can be happier than a prince.

We're on the same wavelength. We're connected that way, even if I'm away from her.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies.

You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment.

It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.