You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

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 think that 'God' would have a devil of a time if he was here on Earth.

Trust not tomorrow! Whatever you are planning, today is the best day to act!

Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.

I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

One of my keys to success is a lot of pillows. I feel like a lot of pillows is important to relax each piece of your body.

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.

Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.