I think it's good to have an old fashioned musical as well as new musicals. There's a lot of room for different shows.

Don't wait for people to tell you who you are. Show them.

I didn't love stickers and unicorns and stuff, but just if I were to ride on the back of a beast to work, I want it to be a frickin' unicorn.

I learned to stop saying yes because I then have to back out. I've been trying to prioritize my health.

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

Being in front of a live audience again. I get that in my concerts but there's nothing like being on Broadway.

I'm not a big weird eater-of-things. I mean honestly I would say like for me, like escargot or sweetbreads is the weirdest thing I've eaten. But I haven't eaten like bugs or... not that I know of.

I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a wife.

I haven't been trying to be anything other than myself.

Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

When people respect someone as a person, they admire her. When they respect her as a friend, they love her. When they respect her as a leader, they follow her.

There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.

The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

Put three Zionists in a room and they will form four political parties.

Who you are is love. What love does is heal.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.