Most of the time, somebody has a good story and adds the songs to it later. This show seems to be worked from the completely opposite angle. Billy wrote the music and lyrics, and Twyla grabs it and makes the show.

This is certainly a sector which is affected by news and we're waiting for more good news to come out before these stocks do turn around.

My hotel is full of people who need to work here but they don't have a home. We've had to shift gears a little bit ? we're more like a dormitory now.

I knew it was kind of a long shot, I guess, but it was worth looking into. I guess we'll save that for another day.

One of the most athletic roles I've done in my life. The choreography is very athletic, and it's a very intense time.

We had the match set up to win and our experienced kids didn't come through as expected.

When I started to learn my role, she very much emphasized that the most important part of performing was the storytelling. She would teach us the steps and get all worried about pulling off specific turns and jumps, but then she . . . would make us act out the scenes without saying a single word.

We're not quite as busy as New York. We don't expect people to be working around the clock. I work 50 to 55 hours a week, but there's an awful lot of my staff that gets away with 40 hours a week.

It's going to be an extremely difficult Thanksgiving, but everyone who made it is very thankful.

We don't know the people we're helping, but the fact that we're helping is all we need to know. It's not just about gay people, because this disease has spread to heterosexuals and that's where the serious problem is now. Our passion is for helping people who have no other means. It doesn't matter that we've never met them and probably never will.

Many people say they got into their career by accident. The other side of that is that your career is an accident waiting to happen.

In the second half of 1999, we'll clearly see probably 10 to a dozen large Internet companies that are profitable, and, at that point, if some of the smaller companies cannot demonstrate clear progress toward profitability, then you would see the premium going towards those that are profitable and away from those that are not.