My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's "I Remember Sky." It's probably the saddest song of all time I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

Don't wait for people to tell you who you are. Show them.

I think it's good to have an old fashioned musical as well as new musicals. There's a lot of room for different shows.

I didn't love stickers and unicorns and stuff, but just if I were to ride on the back of a beast to work, I want it to be a frickin' unicorn.

I learned to stop saying yes because I then have to back out. I've been trying to prioritize my health.

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

Being in front of a live audience again. I get that in my concerts but there's nothing like being on Broadway.

I'm not a big weird eater-of-things. I mean honestly I would say like for me, like escargot or sweetbreads is the weirdest thing I've eaten. But I haven't eaten like bugs or... not that I know of.

I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a wife.

I haven't been trying to be anything other than myself.

Making someone responsible for your misery also makes them responsible for your happiness. Why give that power to anyone but yourself?

It's better to shut a fool's mouth with sarcasm rather than cursing him back.

It is never too late to give up your prejudices

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

Hillary Clinton has done amazing things and she's not done yet.

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.