I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.

I have great faith in the United States. It's the only country I would ever live in.

Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.