When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.

You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it.

There really is no such thing as failure. There is only the rearrangement of plans and surrender of ego.

Experience is truly the only thing that makes experts so expert.

Few artists are able to accurately assess just how valuable and great their work is - or how much it will be appreciated by its audience. In other words, insecurity is the name of the game.

How many of us give up along the way because we'll never be the expert that so-and-so is?

There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas.

Not like others? You may be inspired differently. Be bold, step out, follow YOUR intuition, no matter how sedate or impossible it may appear

Fully experiencing the connection that exists between us all is the secret to true contentment.

...your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will...

Now they can do all these magic things with computers. So you think you get to do something in a movie and you find out you don't get to really do it.

I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.

I'ma be here for a while. None of these clowns can hurt me.

I have a dog that loves to fight. It's a border collie, and they fight low to the ground. Other dogs are terrified of my dog, because he gets low and goes for the balls.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home.

Throughout early modernity there were very strong pressures on Jews to assimilate. Assimilating meant cutting your ties with the community of origin.