Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done.

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.