When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

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.

We are treated different because we want to be treated different.

Ascension to successive echelons in the pyramid of awareness is an act of inclusion requiring unconditional acceptance of all that lies below.

Heal my heart and make it clean, open up my eyes to the things unseen, show me how to love like you have loved me.

I saw with my eyes people with and without purpose, people with the purpose know where they are going and the others follow the flow!?

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

Look what I’m dealing with, man, I’m dealing with fools and trolls.

If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!