By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.

For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.

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

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

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.