Creativity is a form of knowledge.

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

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.

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.

Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.