What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?

I feel that I speak the musical language.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy. We know that somebody has to clean it up, and that only if it is cleaned up can we hope to start over, and get better.

In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company.