There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

Nothing is staged exactly as it was, because I can't remember - and I consider that an advantage.

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 like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn’t anticipate. It’s really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you’ve never got it all nailed.

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

I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.