Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.

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.

I must do something or I shall wear my heart away...

If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better.

When we allow great minds to sleep, we allow great things to sleep!

The average man that I encounter all over the country regards government as a sort of great milk cow with its head in the clouds eating air and growing a full teat for everybody on earth.

Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?

I like making work in my studio day in and day out, but I'm not so interested in the business side

You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.

I'm a Beatles fan, and I remember in the mid-1980s, when CDs first came out, there was a sound of vinyl and the sound of the needle on it that people loved, and suddenly CDs were threatening.

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

I don't think anyone could ever be wholly satisfied with their performance.