Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically.

After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I also draw and paint, sometimes I sketch out the action as well.)

Basically, I composed the musical structure in one pass. The rest was editing and small adjustments. And when the play was read by actors with the music, the sequence timed-out perfectly.

After each performance of an Austin Shakespeare production, audiences are invited to stay for a ten-minute discussion of the work. And this tradition continues in our New York run.

I really enjoy fusing text and music.

Sometimes, I stood at the front of the E train, watching the tunnel ahead, imagining what Anthem would look like on stage.

Most of Ayn Rand's major characters are already formed at the start of the stories.

I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.

In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.

I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I didn't complete the job.

I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.

Panic, fear, worry, doubt, negativity ... words not recognized by Cosmic Ordering.

The Pressure-Maybe one day, after centuries, we can become brilliant gemsin crystal cavesand we will be immortal after all.

Resources follow vision.

The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.

Let me play a Man in a scene.

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

You never grow out of high school sadly.

Less than ten cents on the dollar in the Clinton Foundation has gone to charitable causes.

And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.