There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.

Success is always something that you have to recover from.

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.