Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.

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.

God exists. He has one wicked since of humor, and right now he’s having a grand old time punking the planet.

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized cynic to do other than to worship it.

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.

If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

Girls are always talking about electricity in their romance, but none are too happy to actually be electrocuted, apparently. Bloody confusing, is what it is.