Brandon Victor Dixon

“There's nothing wrong with being honest about what you are.”

“I think that it's important to make criticisms of the government as a whole and criticisms of the policies, but to do so in a way that you can invite the individuals who maybe were on the opposition before, or who voted for somebody whom you are in disagreement with... that you open the door for a conversation with those people.”

“Style and image - it's what Motown is about. They had a charm school led by Maxine Powell. There was literally an artists' development department.”

“My No. 1 artistic inspiration in theater is Brian Stokes Mitchell.”

“It's important to seize any opportunity one has to speak to their elected representatives, no matter the situation.”

“If you empathize with your fellow humans on stage, you can't help but do so offstage as well.”

“It is relatively impossible for people to have clear perspectives on themselves when they're in the midst of them, and often harder to recollect after the times, eras, and situations themselves have passed.”

“My business partner Warren Adams and I formed our company WalkRunFly as part of what felt like a logical progression: if you want to execute things to your satisfaction, then you want to have as much control as you can. That leads to helping create work for others, not just yourself.”

“Berry Gordy has always been this hazy legendary figure that I've known about in my childhood that was responsible for everything that I found important in the world.”

“I always wanted to be a Broadway star. That's actually what I wanted to be when I was a kid. I wanted to be the 19-year-old sensation on Broadway. It took a little bit longer than that.”

“I always thought from my knowledge of London theater and the audiences here that they would appreciate a truly genius piece of theatrical work.”

“I don't think in a box. I think in a sphere.”

“That's the kind of work I like to do: challenging work that has a message.”

“Every day alive in the 'Power' world is a beautiful day.”

“We, as a society, have become very fixed in our ideas of how things were, how they are, and how they should be.”

“I think that there is such power with the live performance of it - so much of what 'Motown' is about is the live performance aspect, really. The power of our production is really the music and the performances.”

“Part of the elements of the electoral college is creation. Certainly it was created in slave states and them wanting to balance power, but there's not a specific set of the country always determining who the president is.”

“'Rent' audiences tend to be pretty vocal. They scream and cheer a lot.”

“Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness.”

“If people are coming to 'Hamilton' to leave their politics behind, you came to the wrong show.”