Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.
True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.
My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.
I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
Amazement awaits us at every corner.
I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.
You have to be responsible for yourself, refer to yourself, develop yourself, help others, whatever it may be. So we shouldn't have an idea that the whole thing is to shatter ones ego.
We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.
There are cycles in American politics. US cycles are even more pronounced because we Americans have a totally entrepreneurial presidential system. We don't have parliamentary opposition parties with a shadow prime minister and shadow cabinets. Every four years, the opposition reinvents itself.