"Whether you're a musician or a writer everything comes down to story and narrative. And that's why I like to call myself a storyteller more than a singer or a musician."
"I want to welcome audience members who feel like they stick out like a sore thumb. Come here and stick out like a sore thumb with all of us. " - George Salazar
"There are four strings, two octaves and there's something about the sound when I hear it. It just it takes me back to the islands and it makes me feel young."
"The most amazing artistic moments of my life have happened in a live performance where you feel the silence, the absence of noise."
"All of the aspects of identity that he outlined, I also embody. So by being able to realize his words, I’m able to be very closely in conversatoin or community or connection with his aspirations."
"There might be certain spots in the performing in which it’s literally just me responding and vice-versa to what the dancers are doing. Utilizing the moment to really come up with a unique approach to it every night. I think that’s exciting to all of us to have that.”
"I think my role as director is to unlock something specific, more specific, so there's a sort of universality to what you feel from the music."
"The most beautiful plays and the most beautiful origami are the surprising ones. And it's not because they have so many folds but it's because somebody has taken a simple piece of paper and made something unexpected and beautiful out of it."
"I was totally in sync with Lenny's mind. He heard what he wanted through me. So he gave me permission to go deeper into whatever emotional reservoir I had to bring it out."
"My answer to that is to keep writing music that I think is important. I think there's an element of people when they hear the truth, they respond to it"