It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.

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

It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.

I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.