So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.

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?

When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.

Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.

Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.

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