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.

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

A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.

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.

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.

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

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.