My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed. less than 1 minute read
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. less than 1 minute read
I’ve told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you’re not necessarily able to tell what’s real and what’s not. less than 1 minute read
Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It’s not as if I sit down and play ‘Fire and Rain’ by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up… the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions. less than 1 minute read
I know there are people who don’t like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don’t bother me and when they do contact me it’s usually on the nicest possible terms. less than 1 minute read
Though ‘Fire and Rain’ is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience… And that’s what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it… can be a shared experience. less than 1 minute read
A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom. less than 1 minute read
Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone. less than 1 minute read
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. less than 1 minute read
