I realized the only time I felt complete and peaceful was while I was playing or shortly afterwards, even though it was in front of thousands of other people, which most people wouldn't consider to be a safe place.

On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

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.

Two hearts are better than one.

There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And there's the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.