If I got involved with the chat rooms and Facebook and everything - I would probably never leave. That's why I don't do it. I literally don't do it. At all.

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.

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.

I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.

Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.

Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation

Happiness is the best adventure on earth.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.