Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.

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.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

I grew up in a rough environment. You want to be strong and have your presence felt out there. That attitude reflects how people see you.

I went to USC and tried to learn about the other side of the camera a little bit.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

If only it was effortless to understand you because if it wasn't so. . .there wouldn't be any point to be by your side... —kakeru manabe

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

I think Texans have more fun than the rest of the world