Alice Ripley Quotes
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It's hard being a Barbie doll all the time.
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My favorite thing as a performing artist is to get a pile of raw material from a writer who says, 'Will you help me make this real?' There's nothing like starting from scratch.
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Chrissie Hynde's from Ohio, and so am I. If there's a Cleveland sound, that's what it is.
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There were eleven kids, and we all shared a bathroom. It was enough to drive us all insane.
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I was 14. I went to see a production of 'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,' and when they got to that final song, 'If We Only Have Love,' it was like the top of my head had blown off.
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I love having a basement.
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Uzo Aduba over at 'Godspell' is doing an even more entertaining Donald Trump than Donald Trump's Donald Trump.
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Oh my God, I love Max von Essen.
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I think I enjoy Sondheim so much because of the lyrics. The lyrics, the cornucopia of options.
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What made me so brave? Maybe it was being the middle kid of 11, and we all had to share one bathroom. New underwear? I never discovered that until I got into college.
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When the decades pass and you're working in this business, the audiences get older with you. That's the nice part about it. They're so supportive and so loving.
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'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.
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It's nice to be in a smaller room. I like the big arenas as well, but at my core, I'm a live performer, so it's nice to be able to feel the warmth of everybody in the room.
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George Benson's 'This Masquerade' is my favorite version of Leon Russell's blue gem.
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I cry at Kodak commercials.
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'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is participating in that.
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I've been committed to personal growth since I was a teenager, and I'm a believer in the idea that your thought is the only thing that matters.
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I take a lot of naps.
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I've always been drawn to raw material.
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I come from the Midwest, from the suburbs - growing up hanging out at the mall and looking at the corn fields across the street. I kind of was embarrassed by it for a long time. Then I decided, 'Hey, if everyone else can embrace their homeland and where they're from, I can do the same!'
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I have a soft spot for vintage movie houses covered in goo; what can I say?
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I'm a strong follower of hydrotherapy.
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I love every minute of my work.
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I sometimes write songs on the piano, even though I don't actually play the piano. I always hire someone to play for me whenever I decide to sing a song I have written on the piano. My song 'Rosa' is one.