I think for me it was really rewarding I met with Jill Johnson who’s the director of Harvard's Dance Program and Seán Curran, who is the director of the dance department of NYU. I had known so much about them before from reading their biographies, but to go there and meet with them was a really transformative experience. And they were so enthusiastic when they said they received the request and the list of questions because they were asked things they were never asked before and really liked that and so they knew they had to do it and really wanted to be a part of it and add their voice to The Creative Process because they know it’s so necessary to connect students and get them involved in the arts and humanities. For me, I left the interviews feeling so fulfilled. So many thoughts in my mind. I felt they were so honest, raw; they really didn’t hold back. It was like they wanted to share these things, and it meant a lot for them to go to that deeper level that in a normal interview they wouldn’t go to. So, for me to see that, I knew we were doing something right. This is what The Creative Process is about. These kinds of deep conversations and not ones on just on the surface level but below that. Like I’ve said, for me it has been so fulfilling and it’s changed me for the better. I think sharing with others helps build your confidence. I have to say when Mia and I collaborated on questions, and she asked me to conduct the interviews because I was going to New York at the time, I didn’t think I could do it with people of that caliber, but it turned out to be incredibly rewarding. And I would tell any student, if you have the opportunity to connect with notable people like this project does, you’ll find it’s just super rewarding, even if you find it a little scary at first. But these artists are very accommodating and enjoy sharing ideas and discussing creativity and the humanities and the importance of it, so it feels more like a conversation. 

I think now more than ever the arts are really necessary and the world needs to remember that and not lose sight of that. If there’s no art in the world, it's not the world I want to live in. You know there are all these horrible things happening in the world, but we will always have art. And art is so powerful. It’s able to tell a story unlike anything else, so it’s really something that we need to be promoting. And you know having discussions about ideas, stimulating students and bringing them together with these notable figures and having talks about creativity and finding out who we are is really important for us all. Really all that matters is that you have some appreciation for the arts, and you can share your inner voice in a way. That’s what The Creative Process is all about.