The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.

Singers are experts at keeping things from dripping on their throats. Believe me, they're experts.

I don't use my lips. I use my tongue to make - create the vowels.

It’s not about inviting great things into our lives. Rather, it’s about accepting the invitation of great things to step out of our lives.

Golf sits in that beautiful junction between perfection and frustration.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.

Some people have concerns about what it means to leave our responsibilities to robots. I think to some degree in every family, you've got siblings who disagree over the care for their parents.

No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary!

No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil.

My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

A well trained body is a beautiful instrument on which to play the melody of the present moment.

It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.