Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

You might say that the universe plays the blues.

The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos.

Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.

There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself.

The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.

If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.

I would be inclined to say 'if you are not willing to cooperate and follow the rules of your international federation you are not the right track and field association to be part of the USOC.

Make lots of money. Enjoy the work. Operate within the law. Choose any two of three

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

The jealous keys of truth's eternal doors.

I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.

He simply contemplated human realities from a divine perspective.

If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.

True Love gives you Peace! It doesn't consume you with anxiety, that's lust!

Over the years I have realized that the mistakes and forgetfulness is what makes live shows more endearing.