Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

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.

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.

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

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

There Are No Secrets of Success, It Is The Result of Preparation, Hard Work And Learning From Failures...

Jesus modeled true leadership as both personal and hospitable.

But, Leader, she is wrong - "Maybe she is, " Quill say and looks at Becca. Her heart pounds so hard she can barely hear him. "But you don't know that for sure, now do you, Banshee?

Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

Chocolate is the greatest gift to women ever created.

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.