Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.

Change is such hard work.

I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

Consider the rose...The rose is the sweetest smelling flower of all, and it's the most beautiful because it's the most simple, right? But sometimes, you got to clip the rose. You got to cut the rose back, so something sweeter smelling and stronger, and even more beautiful, will grow in its place