I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment or your inner joy.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

What I don't have in theater is editing.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

They didn’t change

There’s only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.

With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him and that all merely exists for his sake.

I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.

Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others.

Fear and creativity don't mix well.

When you find your authentic self, your identity - your true identity - how many people work a job they hate or live a life, they're going oh my gosh.