Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

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.

If Satan can’t keep you away from Christ, he will at least try to make you doubt your salvation.

unrequited love is likekneeling on uncooked riceand waiting for the boiling water of his kissesto soften the painbut he never comes.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :)

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.

I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.

Sting's legacy was built on Ric Flair's reputation.