I feel a great responsibility to deliver for our audience ... I am like their servant, but there's only one honest way to lift people up, which is to feel genuinely elevated yourself. And the way to do that is follow your heart. That's all we try to do.

I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.

Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul. You've got to run like an antelope, out of control.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.