White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.