One thing that's really pulled me in to helping artists create their album is that I get to help them tell a story. It's about the way you frame that….

In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved..

The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out..

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through..

It's better to copulate than not..

The Gospel is a gospel of power or it is nothing at all..

Confidence is the greatest friend..

I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington..

I find that complete trust and subsequent courage galvanizing and inspiring..

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessen….

When a bunch of stuff is happening on set, you have to remember the grander purpose: you're telling a story, so you have to get to that moment, and t….

I am nobody but myself..

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen..

It's got to feel, the pulse has to feel like this part of the world, the instrumentation has to be true to that, and so, between him, [composer] Mark….

Everyone in his place and a place for everyone..

When I’m rested, I’m at my best..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

I think there is a big question in how much music a film needs - a lot of films are overloaded for my taste, so that the story can't carry its own we….

I look for the moment(s) in the story where the writer risked abandoning the glory of the self in favor of the possible relationship with an other. I….

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living..

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into..