Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

The only reason to write is from love.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Any moment, big or small, Is a moment, after all. Seize the moment, skies may fall Any moment.

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

Going through fear is one thing, being beyond it is another.

The greater evil who is in-When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the painOr he who pays for the sin?

The children start school now in August. They say it has to do with air-conditioning, but I know sadism when I see it.

The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

People used to think of vocal music as boring choir stuff, once you figured out that you can do crazy beat-boxing, awesome bass lines (and) throw everything together, you just have really cool music.

More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.