"I always loved performing: a little theater, my backyard. I picked my high school because it had a theater arts department that was great."
"Happiness is a skill that you develop and also something that you can't be all the time."
"It means more than just you're not alone. It means you're not alone in your desires, your dreams, your wishes, your hopes. I've got them, too. So let's both dream together."
"My dream is to find an orchestra, a place where we can do some crazy things and grow together, fly together."
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"It blows my mind when someone is 40 and I say 'Do you know who Henry Mancini is?' and they shrug."
"As much as you want to make it be about me, there's just too many ways in which it isn't."
"It's not like you're looking for influence. What you're looking for is the possibility for other people to do things."