I just love to do the songs, and that's what I'm still about - taking people on a trip. A good trip.
If you worry too much about anything, you end up making bad movies.
'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance.
My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.
I got to sing for Julie Andrews when I was a senior in college. I was singing some of her songs for an audition and wasn't expecting her to be there, so when I walked in, I barely avoided peeing myself.
The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
I play for the audience's pleasure. What I expect from them is not important; it's what they expect from me.
In my case, I take part in performance-oriented music and believe it is my call to show the audience something that both their eyes and ears can enjoy.
I'm a fan of movies and television shows, and I don't expect anything from actors and actresses, or anyone, but good work. What they do. I don't feel like I deserve a piece of their personal life, or even what they think about the work they do.
All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance and send their children to this field.
Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.
All I ever wanted was to perform, make music, make videos.
It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
I'm only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.
There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'
For me, art is always a kind of theater.
People are really seeing that drag is an art form, that it's so much more than self-expression.
Being at the show, watching people do what they do so well, hearing a full orchestra, and hearing beautiful music? There's nothing better.
One does not play the piano with one's fingers: one plays the piano with one's mind.
Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
I just feel if you are an artist, you always have something to prove, if you are in music or in films, you have to prove that you can still do your best.
Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.
Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.
I used to think of exhibitions as being practice but they are not.
