I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what's going on in their lives. Not everything.

I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and hands in them - gruesome stuff. I had them all around the house, and if someone couldn't relate to it in some artistic way and instead just said "Yuck," then there probably wouldn't have been anywhere for us to go.

When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.

Anything that's expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it's not a goal.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

Sometimes it's an external approach where one can learn the skills required, let's say, learn to play the trumpet and in that process other things happen. It's magical: through the process of practicing four hours a day you start focusing on emotion and when you pick up the trumpet it's filled with feeling.