Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves.

I probably protect myself by not asking myself too much.

Sometimes I start with music on and then I get distracted because I'm working to a different rhythm; I'm not working to myself. So, I don't have music on when I'm working.

I like actual songs and bands, but it's usually parts, like the production, the bassline, the drums, that I'm really attracted to.

I started using Notes [on my iPhone] but I do a lot of hand written notes. It's a very slow, accumulative thing.

I'm one who needs to be in the space [for] a sense of place and order. It's crucial.

I don't analyze too much, because then I'll question, 'Why do I write down all of these random little phrases?'

I'm not really interested in making someone endure a performance or stand there for too long. I like to think about the length.

Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive.

It's a nebulous thing, but it is my belief—my experience also—that women do not have the need to collect that men have.

Religion allows people to ignore the needs of real beings in favour of the supposed wishes ofa being that does not exist.

Beyond the haze, the globe was decorated with a mosaic of sapphire, emerald and amber. The planet glittered like a jewel in the moonlight.

It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

We obviously feel destiny and purpose and do what we do, but within that are ways to help others and to inspire others and to support and encourage people.

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.

Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?

To you your father should be as a god; One that composed your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax, By him imprinted, and within his power To leave the figure or disfigure it.