I saw 'The Godfather' in London when it came out in 1972 and loved it. I've seen it probably 20 times - I always find something new.
My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.
It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.
Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
I prefer department stores. In boutiques, they come up and ask you if you need help. I can't get lost in the experience.
'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.
What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.'
I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.
In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.
Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone.
When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.
With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living, breathing entity from the soul.
I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.
A lot of people from my generation can't write songs anymore, or it's really hard and it's an unpleasant experience. I don't feel that way at all.
I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.
I don't have a huge breakfast, and I sometimes forget to have lunch, so I focus on dinner. I love Thai and Japanese food.
One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.
