So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live...

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of...

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change your ideas, change your face, you know?

Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it is not widely distributed.

If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.

Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from...

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

If I had the choice to travel to two places in Europe, it would be Paris and London.

Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

Italy has great food and Barcelona has great energy.

There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

Japan, not only a mega - busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old...

The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.

Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

I've told you before: punk is only hibernating, not dead!

Which is what it all comes down to, I suppose – how you're selling. Welcome to the twenty-first century, where the only opinion of you that matters is the one that isn't your own. Rate My Tits. Rate...

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

In America, we know to ignore artists if they're serious in any way.

The USPS is the only place in the world where you will find a black guy, a white guy, and a hispanic guy playing Filipino poker! And we love it that way!

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no...

The starting point to freedom is to begin questioning the cultural narrative you have been sold.

Culture and holiness must be made compatible in the environment of the kingdom

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.