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.

For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.

Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.

The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs.

With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.

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