Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

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

If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

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

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.