I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

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

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

I don't like that whole "art should challenge you" thing. Because I don't feel like art actually does challenge you. I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything.