Looking back doesn't have to be painful.

You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.

Theatre is immediate gratification

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.

I'm bugged because I can't believe I can't speak every language there is. But I feel I can when I sit and am with somebody, and I can dance for them. Because dance is dialogue without language.

Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time. And nothing can replace that.

My neighborhood was a great neighborhood; it was filled with all sorts of ethnic groups and things. So I grew up thinking I was a human being.

I love life. I love the live theater.

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

Those for whom things came easily usually made less of an effort, not more.

Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

America is a country that believes in redemption.

Music has been more, you know, the only thing I've ever known.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

I watch some CNN and a lot of Fox, because it helps me get irritated.

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

That's what I was gonna say. It seems like songwriters should express who they are through what they're doing rather than trying to go legit in that way.

I was living a life of a lie. I really was.