Quotes from Idina Menzel

It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.

I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.

A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.

I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.

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.

As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.

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

Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.

I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.

I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.

I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.

Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

The truth is I love musical theatre and always have.

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.

'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.

As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.

I always use my husband's cocoa butter stuff. He has amazing skin!

My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.

I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.