I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.

Every day I wake up, there's a little part of my brain that's thinking I might die in a terrorist attack today.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.

In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways, musical theater has caught up with straight theater in that it's allowed more surreality and breaking of form, and that's really exciting to me - the challenge is getting people to produce those shows.

The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater more vital than ever. It's definitely expensive, but I have faith that the market will keep recognizing the live experience as a valuable and important one.

Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics.