I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.

Honestly, I don't see movies more than once.

The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.

I played no sports well. Because I was a boy in the United States Of America, I was forced into Little League and played horrible Little League baseball, and played football and basketball in school situations where I was forced to.