Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.

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.

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

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

The time is coming when we have to stand before the Lord to give account of our works

A sober heart conceals, what a drunken mouth reveals, or in your case, a drunken body and lips.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.

There may be luck in getting a good job-but there's no luck in keeping it.

Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.