Stay a child while you can be a child.

For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.

Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you dont feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel youre making art.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.

I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.

That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.