If you become a star known for one thing, that becomes your thing, and you don't want that, on some DNA level..

I have not been recognized..

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact..

I am not the we of anyone.

Orientalism has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point o….

Live in the precious present..

I spent my 30s figuring out how to be a grown up, I guess. I loved my 30s! My 30s were really about being happy with what I was doing..

You can't escape from what you are..

I always sang, I always acted, I always played..

I would like to do some musicals..

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts..

I have seen the future, and it works..

We are taught words, not ideas..

I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more..

Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas..

There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.

We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free..

When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently..

Bette Midler can say four-letter words and make you love it..

It's not how you start, but it's how you finish..

Music to me is life. It's what gets me going..