I think the world should be one community.

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.

You should always celebrate your successes because someone else will celebrate your failures.

It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.

She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together.

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.

We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

I've got the brains, you've got the looks, let's make lots of money

The first song is called 'London.' It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.

I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.

The more holy a man becomes, the more conscious he is of unholiness.

Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.

no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any

Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance in the world to pursue your dreams.

Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could.

Let us make that one point - that no child will be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, or killed and thrown away.

I would love to have the power to stop waking at 3 a.m. every night to check my e-mail.

I keep thinking the bad guys will win in the end and take it all away, but somehow it all seems to keep working.