If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically.

I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice.

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.