I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

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.

Don't try to follow trends. Create them.

Seek God every day.

Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I've been able to spot them where I want to spot them.

If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

I can't even plan tomorrow.

Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.

I'm the worst at teasing. I don't really know how much I can and can't say.