The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment or your inner joy.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

What I don't have in theater is editing.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

…everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have a somewhere you can go!

Even one day lost in misery is a great loss, for the day will never come back again. You lose 24 hours of happiness, joy & bliss. Live each day in happiness.

All new news is old news happening to new people

My life was a blank paper, until you came to rhyme with words & make it a poetry book. ❤ ❤

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

15 concubines ain't nothin' to sneeze at.

The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.

As you can taste a pot full of food with a spoon likewise someone's tounge can tell you about his heart.

People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.