Content dictates form and style.

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.

Those that care for their career, more than their relationship, can find themselves alone.

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations.

Discipline enables you to think first and act second.

I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

By ourselves we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.

He toss my salad like his name Romaine

Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found myself looking at my work as if I were at my own funeral.

Once you have a mission, you can't go back to having a job.