Pastoral Resources

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.

I'm playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don't have to sing it. I just have to play it. That's cool.

I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.

The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

I am happy to play the bad man.

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.

I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.

My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring.

Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.

All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play.

The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less.

My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.