In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.

Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically.

After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I also draw and paint, sometimes I sketch out the action as well.)

Basically, I composed the musical structure in one pass. The rest was editing and small adjustments. And when the play was read by actors with the music, the sequence timed-out perfectly.

After each performance of an Austin Shakespeare production, audiences are invited to stay for a ten-minute discussion of the work. And this tradition continues in our New York run.

I really enjoy fusing text and music.

Sometimes, I stood at the front of the E train, watching the tunnel ahead, imagining what Anthem would look like on stage.

Most of Ayn Rand's major characters are already formed at the start of the stories.

I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.

I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I didn't complete the job.

I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.

Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.Read it over.Again.Let those words resonate in your mind.

Whatever you do, do it as a master, not as a slave.

Without music life would B flat

I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.

My alar is like the ocean in storm. (Devi)

I want my children and grandchildren to see what I look like now.

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.

No. He'll get hurt, and he's a good person.

When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started to pick up the pace.