Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.

Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.

When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.