Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.

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

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.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

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 saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.

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.