For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them.

Being a role model is about being true to myself.

When you sit back and you just do what you love, things happen

It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small, and the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all.

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

The one who tried too hard, the outsider, the oddball. Yeah, that was me.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn't concerns anyone.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

There is no wrong way to be a woman

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.

Number 45 doesn't explode like Number 23 used to.

The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying.

Our debt was too great and the words thank you too small.

We have to be the best global citizens we can be.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.