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.

My main goal is to tell 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.

Stay a child while you can be a child.

Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.

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.

Gotta watch out for directors.