When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.

The nice thing about doing a pop opera - in the way that doing, say, 'Miss Saigon' or 'Les Miz' would be - is that, because the convention is set from the beginning that this is an opera and everything is sung, there is never that feeling of 'Why is this person bursting out into song?' because the whole thing is sung.

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.