I cry a lot. Usually once a day. I think it's one of the most profound forms of human expression.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.

Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.

A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.

I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.