"A recital is really a one-to-one act of communication. And offering, an act of sharing with the audience."
"You don't only win the job and play the notes and make a salary. Complete musicians means you're devoted. That you are involved in music."
"We rely on our dreamers and the people who have built worlds when the world was against them."
"I mean, of all the places to do this show, Los Angeles is probably the right place. Just because of it being about a movie director in a movie studio."
"I just keep turning to Sondheim. I think that he is probably the greatest source for me of wisdom and courage."
"Could Ellington and others have done this kind of work earlier if Gershwin hadn't done it? Maybe. But if they wanted to go that direction, they would have done it regardless of what Gershwin did."
"I can't say we're being completely ourselves. We're being our heightened selves because we're on stage in front of an audience. But we are as ourselves as we can be."