Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.

Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you dont feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel youre making art.

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.

Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.

No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or easy but something I never knew. Love within reason, that isn't love and I learned that from you.

Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.