I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.

It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.

Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!