Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.

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.

Something soft turn to stone within her. She had no choice. She had to fight. She had to win. She would learn. And then she'd free them.Or join them.

Never trust a German to get a sauce right. Their solution to everything is just add more butter.

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.

Don't steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.

For each inclosed spirit is a star Enlightening his own little sphere

I am very picky about my food, and I'm very health oriented, so I always try to cook.

In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.