Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly.

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

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

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 got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?