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

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.

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.

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.

Cine a ucis stelele? Cine a surpat drumul spre viitor al celor din morminte?

Stop raping your feelings with thoughts!

We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.

Did anyone else have these moments of amazement over the existence of humanity, when they are in awe of how they are here, and alive, even if it's only for a short while?

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!

It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.

We have to try really hard to not accidentally summon a demon.

You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.