Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

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.

Only after you've done the exorcism, thenyou'll understand that ghost's also a species.

Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.

Drama is more focused and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there, when you first read it.

We were suddenly getting big, with burgeoning capabilities on all sides, but very clumsy, knew we were on some kind of ride, and things changing fast, but with very little idea of what was going on.

Hello again, everybody... It's a bee-yoo-tiful day for baseball.

The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.

They say it’s always darkest until right before the dawn. I’ve worked on enough projects to know how true this saying really is.

My music has always been important regardless of other projects.

If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.

I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.