I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.

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

I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.