I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

The only reason to write is from love.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

The thing is - any author on the internet doesn't weigh nearly enough as an author in the real world.

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.

Be yourself-but don't be conspicuous.

As a child, I tried to play by the rules. I got very good grades in school; I was an Eagle Scout; and I believed in all of it.

The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.

I love working with women. I think it's because I spent so much time in my brother's heavy metal band. Sweaty boys in the rehearsal room. It's nice to just be in the studio with a fragrant lady.

The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others.

I did this movie about Salvador Dali a few years ago and had hair extensions and a little bob. That was incredibly bizarre.