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" All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny. "

" I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters. "

" For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people. "

" I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up my act, being a Jewish girl from Long Island with a little bit of a trucker mouth. So I wore a gown and some high heels. "

" Nerves are good. They keep you alive. "

" I think that if you're doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder. "

" The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.' "

" I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other. "

" I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them. "

" I always like to sing barefoot. "

" The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older. "

" Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus. "

" As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty. "

" I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique. "

" The most successful people are so original. "

" You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go. "

" When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York. "

" I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week. "

" I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song. "

" As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills. "

" Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems. "

" With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go. "

" For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. "

" I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart. "

" I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love. "

" As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is my... interpretation and my truthfulness with songs, and I don't want young people to think it's all about the high notes that they have to hit. "

" I would love to work with Matt Damon. "

" We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you. "

" I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write. "

" A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me. "