"When I am in charge of a vessel, I always command; nobody commands but me. I take all the responsibility, all the risks, all the hardships that my office would call upon me to take. I do not steer by any man's compass but my own."

“Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.”

“I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.”

“I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really - and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style.”

Source : "Indepth Interview: Julian Ovenden Talks Rodgers & Hammerstein at the Movies, Sunday in Paris, Downton Abbey, Smash, 1st Night & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. April 20, 2013.

“I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.”

“When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.”

“Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.”

“I'm not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul. I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?”

Source : Carson McCullers (1964). “The ballad of the sad café”