Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling

Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it.

Yes, we should not forget that the five senses are one. And all of them extensions of the skin

The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth

I'm agnostic. By definition, I'm unsure of what to believe in, but I'm also borderline-capable of believing in anything and everything, or nothing at all... and I want to believe in something.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. Oh my God, they're $4 million in the hole.

You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.

Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

In Banff, the mountains are really close to your head.

I just love making music. I always stay in the studio. Making music is my main focus.

They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV.

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you.