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" I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets. "

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" That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself. "

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

" The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming. "

" I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends. "

" 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. "

" I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with. "

" I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period. "

" If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in! "

" I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline. "

" I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself. "

" I always use my husband's cocoa butter stuff. He has amazing skin! "

" Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson. "

" 'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs. "

" I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.' "

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

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

" I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows. "

" I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people. "

" Believe me, I don't take that lightly. To have struck gold twice with 'Rent' and 'Wicked.' I know it's rare and I'm very lucky to have that kind of phenomenon in my life. They're not just great shows, they're shows that resonate with young audiences. "

" As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n' roll and jazz standards. "

" I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater. "

Musical Theater

" Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee,' you know, a hit show or whatever. "

" 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 always like to sing barefoot. "

" After 'Rent,' I tried to make a record, and it didn't work out, and it was the Broadway community that welcomed me back. It's where I feel the most understood, most at home. "

" I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves. "

" They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me. "

" I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time! "

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