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.

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.

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

He’s sitting casually at my kitchen table peeling the skin off an applewith a pocket knife, a red apple that he has quite obviously appropriated from my fruit bowl, might I add.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

The biggest idiot you will meet in life will be the person that thinks they know it all.

You just have to keep plugging away and if you get lucky enough to get a job, you get one.

Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God.

It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.