Curiosity is a great antidote to fear.

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.

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.

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.

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

the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

It doesn’t take long for your fortunes to turn. One second you’re fluttery as a bird, the next you’re on the ground with your wings clipped.

To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.

Before the Internet, if someone disappeared, it meant you should go looking for them. Now it means they got a life.

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.

The whole fashion thing is so oversaturated.

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.