I think there's something about dancers, they never ever forget where they come from. They never get grand, no matter what success they have.

My favorite part of theatre is that I get paid for it!

I've always said the theatre is my church. It's where I feel God the most. It's where I know there's a God.

I love the stage, it's my first love - but, it's gone. You do your performance, then it's a memory. It only lives in the moment.

Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was the age of the long-runners.

Collaboration is when you find somebody who, literally, complements and gets you that you can work with. Collaboration is when you really, really want to work with somebody.

There needs to be more Kander & Ebbs and Rodgers & Harts and people like that out there. But, it's so hard to get something looked at and on.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

There is no pathos more bitter than that of parting from someone we have never met.

The inventors of tools enhance civilization, but the author of ideas enables them to invent.

Crazy things seem normal, normal things seem crazy.

'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view.

I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.

You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.

Don't leave me." "Leave you? I'm going to marry you.