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.

Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.

My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

When I listen to my work, I think, what's so inflammatory about it? It's not really that dissonant. A lot of people who used to hate my stuff have come round to it.

Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.