Every teacher of Transcendental Meditation is a hero.

Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.

Float with me in the world of ether.

To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.

In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point.

I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is.

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.