I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.

As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.