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

Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.

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