Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

My parents got divorced and military school gave me a structure. A lot of kids my age were children of divorced parents. They didn't know what to do with the kids.

Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.

Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.

The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.