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You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.

All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too.

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

You have to be aware of what the audience's expectations are, and then you have to pervert them, basically, and hit them upside the head from a direction they weren't looking.

You have to make an audience experience with the ears as well as their eyes.

Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up.

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.

When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts.

I love the challenge of having an audience know what you're thinking without having to tell the audience what you're thinking.