I really, really love new work, and that's why, you know, I produced a concert series supporting new musicals and stuff like that. I hope to do more things like that.

I was completely unhealthy, obese, so I committed to running three miles every morning for six months and following a strict diet, and 100 pounds came off.

I knew that I wanted to meet girls, so I joined a fraternity, and I did yoga.

AMAZING GRACE is about the man who wrote "Amazing Grace," John Newton. It's a really great show - I have been workshopping it for a while now, actually.

My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson... and Placido Domingo.

I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the same thing all the time.

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.

I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour during the day. I don't have any superstitious rituals or anything like that.

As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.

I would love to play Bobby in COMPANY. Also, I would love to play George in SUNDAY.

RAINThunder skiesdewdrops fall, timeless motion.Heavy drizzles, blurred visionslumbering moon.

Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.

We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.

Hell is God's Absence.

I'm quite good at not writing.

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

I can talk about humility, but I'm not humble. I mean, if you say, I'm humble, you've just contradicted yourself. But I'm trying to be, man, I'm trying so hard.

I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye.