I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.

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.

This world rubs me raw, scours me smooth like an SOS pad put to a grease-caked skillet. And pain: it stabs and scrapes and pulls me back to earth, my final B&B, that worm-spun cot of cool black sod.

I had such a big mouth for so long that it doesn't faze anybody anymore.

I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby.

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.

Life is short, but art lives forever.

My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped.

I'm looking for loopholes. (Said when caught reading the Bible.).

For 40 hours a week competition is awfully stiff but after that there's very little competition .