Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.

Success is always something that you have to recover from.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.