When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.

I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.

There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that?