You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
The only reason to write is from love.
Nice is different than good.
I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.
I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.