I'm pretty focused on my career and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines it's gonna be learning my lines.

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately you would be able to do it.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning that creates the culture that acquires the culture and that responds to socialization.

I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.

I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.

So for example if a child is labeled as having a learning disability it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

For me 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself finding out who I was learning the power I could have as a performer.

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning testing and understanding determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.