I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

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.

When you are angry, be still and do not speak.

Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies

Difficulties were fires. If you kept them in check, you could learn from them. You simply had to know how to fan them the right way.

Insularity plus time yields divergence.

It’s easy to fall in love online with someone you’d slide away from on a bus stop bench. A little too damn easy.

Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

Black Market, like a lot of teams, is a family for me. Just guys that I grew up with that I trust and would do anything for.

I think the songs are more about relationships that are endless.