Text Quotations

Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.

With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.

I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey.

Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.

Usually I'm very, very involved with choosing my character's wardrobe and knowing exactly how I want the character to look and this is the color palette and the textures and these are the kinds of shoes she'd wear.

I am seriously looking at relocating my textile units to Bangladesh as the cost of manufacturing here is going beyond our control.

I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from. Even when I'm at a party, I'm analyzing it and thinking about it in the context of how I would write about it. That side of me never switches off.

What we know about Pluto today could fit on the back of a postage stamp. The textbooks will be rewritten after this mission is completed.

What we know about Pluto could be printed on the back of a postage stamp. The textbooks will be rewritten when this mission is completed. The true nature of this mission is to find the answers to questions we don't even know how to ask.

There are some points not in the text that frankly we would have preferred to have seen in the text. Other colleagues said no, that would send a different message at this particular time.