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

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 don't want to be in an art bubble.

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.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

Limp finally spoke. “Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?

Out of all the addictions in the world, Attention is slowly but surely becoming one of the most dangerous.

The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.

I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.

Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

Recent rampage is a function of the exponential growth of populations and economies. It has to do with globalization and the steady increase in computational power.