It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

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.

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

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