The only reason to write is from love.

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.

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'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

It’s about freedom, joy, and wisdom. It’s all about divine love.

Peace is always possible.

They (corporations) cannot commit treason nor be outlawed nor excommunicated for they have no souls.

The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

I want my songs to be heard by everyone.

An Oscar is a total honor. It's thrilling, and on the one hand, it means a lot of things, and on the other hand, it doesn't really mean anything. It's a moment in time.

If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over.

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.