Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size.

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.

motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

Once, back home, I decided to count how many days out of my twenty months in Afghanistan I’d been on combat missions. 217 days. And I’m still paying the price for every one of those days.

An essential part of teachingis to show how to enjoy learning.

The designer side of me has many ideas on how the shoes or woman should look, but the man is thinking 'would I want to see my girl in those shoes?'

Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record.

That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.

I love characters that are very layered and complex. It's more exciting and different than any simple role- plus, I love a good challenge.

God will do nothing except you pray; and you have to be clear what you want