I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

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

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

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.