"I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens."

"Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours."

"And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust."

"I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate."

"Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes."

"I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck."

"Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do."

"I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had."