I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.

There are amazing teachers, but the system doesn't always allow them to address the individual needs of a child.

I once had a young musician come to me and say that he wanted to be a professional musician. I asked him to write his list. When he came back to me, the three things in his life he most wanted were: to be paid for his music; to travel around the world; to meet new people. We came to the decision, after thinking really creatively, that if he got a job on a cruise ship, he would fulfill those goals.

I tell you what I love - and I think you get better as you get older - when you're younger and you don't know what you don't know, you tend to talk more about what you think you know. You shut out the opportunity to learn what you don't know.

I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.

I love finding myself in the most bizarre situations, drinking cobra's blood - really diverse stories. And yet, I will still turn up on location sometimes and be surprised by what I'm encountering or by how to do something.

I do believe that out of adversity comes incredible resourcefulness.