Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.

In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.

Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.

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.