"Once I got into it, I in this medium, you can use musical theater to connect and make a dream come true, like fly on stage. Through stagecraft you can wow and make them feel that sense of wonder. ... You’re singing, you’re dancing, and you’re performing a feat of wonder. I couldn’t stop thinking in those terms. There was so much potential."

"In England the Low Church is composed of Presbyterians, in Scotland it becomes the High Church. The churches of this sect are chapels and have no bells; neither have those of the Nonconformists, as al…"

"I always thought there were going to be things in my life that would go away, like beauty, youth, all of that stuff…But I never thought that my voice would leave me, because it’s so inherent to my nat…"

"This morning at Flanders Field, I was reminded of how war between peoples sent a generation to their deaths in the trenches and gas of the First World War. And just two decades later, extreme national…"

"I come from a world of conservative Christian thought. I've absorbed Christianity with my mother's milk. So it must be obvious that certain... archetypes, aren't they called? — stick in one's mind, an…"