Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.

I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

I want to age with some dignity.

We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.

Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.