Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

Success is always something that you have to recover from.

When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two worlds. And by those criteria, 'The Color Purple' is actually exactly the kind of story that makes for a great musical. Yes, it's got hard stuff in it, but so does 'Les Miserables' and 'Phantom of the Opera.'

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.