Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.

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

For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.

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.

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

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

That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.