“Another comedian friend of mine, every year around his birthday, he would rent out a roller skate rink and have an open bar. And it was a disaster, as you would imagine, because its drunk people on wheels. It was like me and celebrities. And you’d just be...
“So when we are seen, expressed, and healed through our stories, we give that gift to the world. We move from giving the gift to the world to being the gift because we show others that they can be seen, expressed, and healed. And that changes us from a bunch of...
“I’m attracted to stories about problems created by adults that children have to deal with…problems not of their own making. Children didn’t create war. You don’t go into foster care because of something you did, it’s because of...
“We want our lives to be boring. We want the art to be exciting. And you get that by finding the beginning and the middle of the end is just sight and sound. How about make every single sight and every single sound palpably, measurably move the story...
“Carmine Appice has played with Rod Stewart, Pink Floyd, so many bands. So studying with Carmine, it just changed my drumming life. But he taught me some valuable lessons that were so important to me. One was, if you’re playing because you want to get...
