I've been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I'm not dead!

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

Happiness greatness pride-nothing is secure nothing keeps.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives.

There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

I got hoes in different area codes

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.