Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

I think we're all pretty odd.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

Trust means everything. But when it is broken, sorry mean nothing.

Disinformation is distinguished from misinformation in that it is intentionally fraudulent.

No one told me holy water had chlorine in it.

I tell my sons all the time, 'The most important thing in your life is fitness, ' but a lot of fighters go overboard.

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.

Only love can keep anyone alive.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.