Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

Volumptuous women look good. Ignorant messages from mass media tell women what size to be, but female qualities-a softness, a soothing capacity that a woman has no matter what size she happens to be-sustain the more humane aspects of civilization.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.