“You can’t help but watch with a big smile on your face. It is just beautiful.”

“[Shen Yun evokes] happiness, joy, creativity. [The performance is] incredibly creative.”

“[Shen Yun] tells the truth, that’s why it’s forbidden [in China].

“It tells the truth of the persecution, and the fact that Chinese people don’t have the freedom. When I was there, the Chinese people wouldn’t talk, for example, about the family restrictions that they have—they just wouldn’t talk about it.”