Creativity is a form of knowledge.

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.

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss.

Of course! the path to heavendoesn't lie down in flat miles.It's in the imaginationwith which you perceive this world, and the gestureswith which you honor it.-from The Swan

You were sent to unite peopleYou were not been sent to divide people.

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.

Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.

I believe that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals.

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.