One of the wonderful ways to celebrate women is to hire women.

I'm somebody who grew up listening to a lot of musical theater, so getting to finally write musical theater songs and songs that sound that way - the emphasis being on the storytelling, but the arrangements and the orchestrations can be really varied - I found that to be, actually, a really joyful discovery.

If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.

I think I'm someone who is really prone to melancholy, and the super heavy, thick shows kind of spiral me out into not being able to be as happy a person as I think I deserve to be, so I tend to watch things like 30 Rock and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Anything Tina Fey's involved in. And Parks and Rec. I love comedies!

The struggle is to stay present enough when you're taking your next step forward that you're really making your most honest choices.

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

The theater community at large, I have to say, has just been so warm and so welcoming, and that's not something I'm as used to.