Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

Stories are all we humans have to make us immortal.

This life is nothing but a short, painful dream.

In this world of many consequences, people help people to achieve or to fail, take care of whom to trust.

Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.

Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.

I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.

I didn't write. I just wandered about.

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!

We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity for everyone.