Story is what's most important.

I think if you do what's in your heart - Joseph Campbell always says you have to follow your bliss, and if you do, doors open where you didn't even realize there were doors.

I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.

I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.

I can sing better after shooting smack in both arms than after eating too much.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.