For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together.

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.

Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.

We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate is complete. Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust beneath my feet.

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.