When I'm sculpting, I work with wood and clay, and though some say that an image is already in the material and the sculptor just has to discover it, I also believe you have an image in your head that you're trying to get to. So you're in a dialogue with the piece, a back-and-forth.

You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

I saw bubbling lava, and at the same moment I saw a reflection of a certain kind of inner turmoil. Because at the moment I looked into that crater, I slipped, and a large piece of volcanic rock took a hole out of my leg. The scar is still there 20, 30 years later. But it's one of those things that reminds you of the kind of risk or the kind of moment in order to push yourself.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.