I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write it, you're like, "Oh I kind of got past the sell by date on this." I'm not connected to the initial spark that was the idea. A lot of that's about staying open.

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.

The fact that I'm a performer helps me enormously as a lyricist.

I think I started writing because no one had ever told me you can write about the things you know in a musical. They don't have to come from some far off place.

Sebastian, en Español, is a bad ass name.

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

I think one of the things that makes theater special is first of all, it's one of the last places you put your phone away. And second of all, it's one of the last places where we all have a common experience together.