It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.

The only reason to write is from love.

Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.

Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.

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.

Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.