The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.

Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.

In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.

People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.

In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May.

It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society's expectations.

Just as books are read one word at a time, roads are taken one step at a time.

The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.

My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.

The denial of ourselves which Christ has so diligently commanded his disciples from the beginning will at last dominate all the desires of our heart.

You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.

It's all about love and how we are all connected.

I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

Guys don't want to get to two strikes, so you have to make quality pitches early in the count, try to get them to put the ball in play.