I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.

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

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.

You're so nice. You're not good, you're not bad, You're just nice. I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right. I'm the witch. You're the world.

Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.