Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.

I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.

We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.