I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.

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.

Everything passes everything wears out everything breaks.(Tout passe tout lasse tout casse.)

Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.

I don't own an inch of land, but all I see is mine.

Is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

The only people who can fix Africa are talented young Africans. By unlocking and nurturing their creative potential, we can create a step change in Africa's future.

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 lbs. I say by choice because you see I have never accidentally eaten anything.