I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.

I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.

The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.

I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.