For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.

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.

We should be people of principles and should fight for these principles

Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.

He had never realized, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her about it.

If you ever go bar hopping, who do you want to take with you? You want a slightly uglier version of yourself. Similar ... but slightly uglier.

Russian talk of political evil is as natural as eating.

I know you can't go back, so I try to do all the things other teenagers do.

Yes, Elizabeth.” Dash kept his voice low, but let it rumble with his arousal. “I lived for you and Cassie. But while I fought to live I dreamed, and it was this I dreamed of.

...remind yourself that the only thing you can truly control is you - and your reaction to what the world throws at you.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded by greed.