"If this helps to open your eyes to what is more just, what is more equal, then that is one of the things to take away from this experience today."
"Sitting with the unknown brought up some new things I'm interested in and things that I'm not interested anymore in in a very clear way that it might have just taken a lot more time to find had we not had that experience."
"There's a lot of magic in music that I am not in control of, but that I love being a part of. Maybe just triggering it and then sitting back and watching and listening."
"The most enjoyable thing about what we do is we get to spend time investigating music often that has so many layers and so much to investigate."
"Musically, it's always in a way, like a second thought to me. It's funny, right? I'm always interested in human nature and and humanities and the complexity of the humans in question."
"I always assumed that opera was a world in a space that I shouldn't go into, which I shouldn't even bother."
"When I am standing on a stage and am fully present and people are gazing back at me with that look of expectation, I absolutely feel like I am the luckiest human on the planet. I get to do what millions of people wish they could do."
"If that's how you hear it, I'm going to I'm going to fight like hell to give it to you.I'll nail it by concert, I promise you."
"Our story is about this particular journey. It's a different journey, but the same journey that I think other people have had as well. "
"That is the process of writing: getting people to ask questions and to take risks and try things they don't know how to do and dare to have it fail."