My cage has many rooms.

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.

Clear skin, a manicure, a couple dead zombies, and then fame!

Ireland is a fatal disease fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.

You must be a starter and a finisher, the slogan “press on” has solved a lot of problem.

Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension.

The best lies are based on the truth, at least in part

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

I like girls who have two eyes

Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.

We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.

However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace