Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, "Cry Cry Cry," went back in and recorded that for the other side of the record.
Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.
There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
I started in theater when I was 14 in the Henry Street Playhouse on the Lower East Side in New York. You hustle, you beat the sidewalk, the pavement - audition, audition. I just started working around town everywhere. I mean everywhere - the Village, Harlem, you know. Brooklyn Academy Of Music. Just job after job.
It's so easy to laugh It's so easy to hate It takes guts to be gentle and kind