What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

Characters are an extension of your imagination.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.

To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so lives more powerfully in the imagination.