Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.

I would say that I don't look for musical things.

I don't read reviews until after I'm done with a production, but when I do finally get to them, I'm always sort of floored by what the bad ones say.

In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.

Over the years, I've had to learn to play. For example, when 'Lennon' was on Broadway, I learned my way around the guitar chords because originally we were all going to play the instruments without a band.

The thing I like about 'Nashville,' it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it's performed at a concert or during a rehearsal.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

As a woman, you can be funny and 50, but you can't do much else - unless you're Helen Mirren!