I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.

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 you insist on standing in such a state of undress, it is your shadow that will have to get out of my way.

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

Imagine being able to make it difficult for an ISIS commander to talk to his fighters in the field just by placing a piece of malware on his computer network.

Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments.

The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.

Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.

You'll never find light by analyzing the darkness.