The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.

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 consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

You just can't beat slip covers for giving that friendly air hospitals need so desperately.

It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.

...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.

Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina.

In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.