As an ACTOR, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with OTHERS and connect all of US TOGETHER. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've DONE are always with me.

Since I have been SINGING for so many years, I don't ALWAYS NEED to APPROACH a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

My LOYALTY is to myself, ACTUALLY. I don't KNOW if it's to my READERS.

The most IMPORTANT THING in life is to LEARN how to give out LOVE, and to let it come in.

We don't ACTUALLY KNOW if the person who wrote the Gospel of John had a WRITTEN copy of Thomas because we don't know exactly when it was written.

I'm for INTERNET OPENNESS. We're all for Internet openness. If you asked the American people, I think they support it. Internet companies, broadband companies are all in FAVOR of it.

We read deeply for varied REASONS, most of them familiar: that we cannot know ENOUGH people PROFOUNDLY enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and OTHERS, but of the way things are.

We may affirm, then, that the main DRIFT of the LATER RENAISSANCE was away from a HUMANISM that favored a free EXPANSION toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.