When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Nowadays, if you have a mustache, people look at you like you're crazy. But when I was growing up, I never saw my dad without a mustache.

I really work hard to shape the song so that it's attractive... You don't want to give people the information in an enema.

Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.

The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.

The beauty of things must be that they end.

'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.

I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.