When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.

Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.

Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for you.

I will take my coffee black / never snack / hang with the wolves who are sheepish.

I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?

I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.

But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.