I credit my collaborators for allowing me to grow. Without them I wouldn't have that opportunity.

I feel like collaboration in music has allowed me to grow musically beyond my wildest dreams.

Barry Manilow is a guy who's had a tremendous longevity that few have had in the music business. I'm in awe of what he does.

Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.

The collaboration wish list is huge, very long. It goes from people like Elton John, for whom I have an unbelievable amount of respect, to Snoop Dogg, whom I also respect a great deal.

Never assume that someone likes you by their sweetNess.Sometimes you are an option when they are bored

The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.

When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.

I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.

Everything we make in life, eventually, is sold for a dollar or a penny or given away.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.

Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead.