In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?
The show isn't about screens, and we don't have any video content or lasers or things blowing up. I want people to come to our show to listen. I want the show to be the music.
Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as I do with the theologian. I'm in an odd world where I make things and share them with people.
And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.
Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.
I used to just scribble things on a piece of paper whenever an idea would - came to mind. Now with cell phones. It definitely has gotten a lot easier because I can just take it out and just - I'll just sing into my phone.
Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating.
I was the first studio executive to meet with Sean Penn after 'Taps' in 1981. I was anxious to develop things with him when nobody knew who he was.
The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.
Being a rather second-rate actress, I finally thought, 'I'd rather be a designer.' I knew I could make things look good.
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
No Muslim country has ever done as much as Turkey to make itself over in the image of a European nation-state; the country's westernised elite brutally imposed secularism, among other things, on its devout population of peasants.
India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.
I feel my role is to push boundaries. I don't like things to be safe and sedentary. So controversy is the cross I have to bear.
There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.
There are a lot of things to get seduced by in America.
