If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?

I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.

That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world.