I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

Filipino pride. I'm so excited, I'm just sending love to the Philippines. I know they've had a tough year and I just send out my feelings to them.

I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before.

I basically never feel like writing. I am a happy-go-lucky, relaxed, fun-seeking kind of person. And working disturbs that, because it puts me in a state of anxiety.

If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them.

I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheims Assassins at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant.

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.

Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods.

In the battle between logic and crazy, crazy always wins.

You become yourself, every single day of your life, through your choices and how you think.

"Snapped" happened maybe like two months after I released the mixtape. I just like took a break from recording and that was the first song I wrote and recorded after the mixtape.

The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.