Musical comedies aren't written they are re-written.

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.

Though I exist in the realms of day and night, I'm only truly alive in the moments between.

Beauty lies in simplicity.

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external 'causes.'

The more trouble you get a man into, the more comedy you get out of him.

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.

To begin living like you've never lived before, begin living like you've never lived before.

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

That amazing moment when your crush has a crush on you. It's a wonderful feeling knowing that the person who you want to be in a relationship with likes or loves you back.

The real question is "Why should we make an exception for billionaire politicians?". We should not.