They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.

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.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

We can only live life when we understand life.

Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self.

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor... help us keep our balance.

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.