Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.

What's right isn't what's worked.

I don't think I do have a soul.

Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs.

You will find when you open your heart and can fill it with loving, beautiful thoughts, that you will want to love all those souls you come into contact with, no matter who they are.

You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.

As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied.

I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.

Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.