If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them.

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

Filipino pride. I'm so excited, I'm just sending love to the Philippines. I know they've had a tough year and I just send out my feelings to them.

I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before.

I basically never feel like writing. I am a happy-go-lucky, relaxed, fun-seeking kind of person. And working disturbs that, because it puts me in a state of anxiety.

I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheims Assassins at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant.

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.

Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul.

We're meant to be friends but you never tell me anything.

The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.

Winning is one of the most special moments. Every time I take the field it's a special moment. The fans are the ones that make it special. Because that's what we do it for.

The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.

From a product standpoint, we want every touch point to feel magical. It inspires trust.

The only thing Oriental about me is my face.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.