Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.