When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.

I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.

I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.

I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.

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