I don't want to be in an art bubble.

Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.

Im always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

Focus on the dreams, there may be distractions but still, focus.

I desire therefore I exist.

Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.

Money is not my business; my thinking is my business. I don't have any other business.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

Sanzo to Gojyo: And give me my gun back. I don't want your idiocy getting all over it.

There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.

At the end of the day, when the food has all been served and savored, what's left is your connection to the people around your fire

Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an unparalleled disparity between men and women.

I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down the biotic pyramid.