"To really give yourself over to that world is a really big commitment. I read it twice through before we started writing. All the chapters that irritated me at the beginning are now my favorites—those side chapters not involved in the plot.”
"The Mexican music is closest to my heart. The first songs I heard were in Spanish."
Hilty performs at VPAC on September 24, 2015
"Some people tend to say that some older songs feel trite and too old-fashioned. The truth is, they were, back in the day, incredibly innovative."
"I think Bent has shown me the kind of divine pleasure of going ahead with something even though it might be really scary."
"That monologue is not all of my life. At some point I need to go beyond it and explore other areas of my life publicly."
"American Sign Language (ASL) is such a style, but I think we’re attempting to make it all seem within the world of the play as opposed to the concert version.”
"Gil's arrangements were perfectly suited for Miles' expression"
"We are all capable of enormous good and enormous evil. Does repeating the worst behavior of a criminal and putting that onto them solve anything? Does that make us better? Who has all the answers?”
She performs at VPAC on Friday, October 3rd