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

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.

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

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.

We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE

My heart felt like a balloon that was filling too full, and I panicked. I might get the bends, the way scuba divers did when they surfaced too fast.

The knish is a classic example of peasant food evolving into comfort food and even sophisticated fare.

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.

Humanity owes the child the best it has to give.

I know a lot of ways to happiness! I also know some pretty fast shortcuts to misery.

The reality is, if you're friends with somebody you should be able to be honest with them, and that honesty should be the biggest magnet to truth.

As audiences, when we are exposed to oral history projects not only do we learn but in some ways we also bear witness to that which we have not experienced personally.