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.

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

The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.

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.

I'm a sucker for double meanings in titles.

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.