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 really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

I read to see myself in other people's lives.

Can't we just pursue our lives With our children and our wives Till that happy day arrives How do you ignore All the witches All the curses All the wolves, all the lies The false hopes, the goodbyes . . .

When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.

Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.

Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.