My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my body into the world in some way.

Theater is such a small community that every brilliant piece of theater raises us all up.

I'm not a competitive person, so I don't feel any pressure to win. I won't sink into a depression if we don't win.

He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.

And when my days run out, I will have lived just a blink of time and the rest will be eternal joy.

We have to take care of the people that can't take care of themselves. And I will do that through a different system.

[The] impersonal process of the market ... can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen.

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.

If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish

I've become more confident in who I am as an artist and as a person. I know what I want and am not afraid to voice it in the studio. Or in life. Take it or leave it!

Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.