I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.

Silence has always been my default mode—my best defense against the rest of the world.

We really don't get to understand /why/ most of the time. It's true.

Remember – it's a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end.

it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.

He said if you do what you have to do today, all the tomorrows have a way of working things out by themselves.

I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.

Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.

I have been to Heaven, I've been to Hell, I've been possessed by Lucifer. You can't really get much bigger than that.

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth

When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.

After 'Urinetown,' 'Avenue Q' and now 'Mormon,' is there an envelope remaining to be pushed?

Believe in who you are, and trust in what you know is true. Your choices are reflections of the goodness within you.