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I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.

Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.

The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.