Everybody is a teenage idol.

I don't want to live on past records.

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

I think the genre of musical theatre, when it started, the pop songwriters of the time were writing the music. I think sometimes when we write musicals now, we keep writing in that same style, as though that's the musical theatre genre... We have to figure out how to tell stories with the music that we listen to now, or we'll lose our audience.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Before I was a mother, when I played characters that were mothers, I used my imagination, of course.

A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.