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

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

I've never had a very great public life.

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.

Your mind builds your reality... based on anything you believe in.

Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

Because we can imagine, we are free.

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

I looked at you... and saw your goodness, your hope, and your faith. Those are what make you beautiful. So, so beautiful. So it was't my hair?

The last thing I want to be known as is 'The Girl Who Got Raped'. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.