I've never had a very great public life.

An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

What musicals need is a new me.

I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.

It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.

My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you.

A society with lynch culture needs a big zoo, not for the animals definitely, but for the very people themselves!

Time goes by: reputation increases ability declines.

It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.

I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.

If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.

I like exploring life and its complexities.

Put up your guards, keep faith in God, I promise you all the world will be ours.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.