“Sometimes it's very difficult to keep momentum when it's you that you are following. - Andrew Lloyd Webber”

“What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.”

“I wonder what would have happened if automation and computers had existed when 'Oklahoma!' was having its out-of-town try-out, and three days before closing in Boston, when it was still called 'Awa...”

“I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.”

“I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.”

“I loved medieval architecture when I was very small I don't know why.”

“Everything is meant for something in this life”

“Guilt is motherfucker,... it takes everything motivation, aspiration and soul. (Kill Game 2015)”

“Dad?" Jesus asked."Yes, son?" God replied."Do we look like man or does he look like us?" Jesus asked."Man made god in his image," God said."Why?" Jesus asked."Because it's easier to believe in some...”

“Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.”

“The only honest way to approach the question of whiteness and blackness is to start by accepting that these are arbitrary categories that were invented in the 17th and 18th century in order to just...”

“I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don't know why I should be ...”

“When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.”

“Stand up for what is right even if you're standing alone.”

“If we go to war, it must only be with right on our side.”