When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in and out of my basement studio to help me with my creative projects.

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.