What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

Parade your pallor in iniquity.

It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do.

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.