I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.

The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

In the end all collaborations are love stories.