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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.

One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.

I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

I think that creative work, music in particular, is a conveyor of inner emotional life. I don't feel one way all the time, so I don't want my music to feel the same way all the time.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

Sometimes it feels like my story overshadows my music.