Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

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.

Write, what you feel about. Feel, what you have written about.

Music is the silence between the notes.

Failed coup has put the people in general on a long trudge to freedom while creating a situation to consolidate more power to exercise the legitimised arbitrariness of Erdoğanian democracy.

The stoic contemplates fallen leaves

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism

If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive.

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.