Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

Love is the reason you were born.

Grab your coat, and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.