I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment or your inner joy.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

What I don't have in theater is editing.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

The difference between failure and survival is that coping skill you used in between the struggles.

True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency. Make it a habit, and when the need arises you will be in practice.

I is Jovial. I is Optimistic. I is Antsy. I is Noteworthy. I is Nervy. I is Ambitious.But altogether ME is JOANNA.WHO ARE YOU ALTOGETHER????

You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.

Attractions are proportional to destinies.

The future comes one day at a time [so don't fear and try to solve all the worries and problems of the future today].

Forever is a very long time Peter

If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

Practice non-action. Work without doing.

Love your heart. It really is to love yourself to begin with and help everybody else in doing the same. But the heart being the center.