Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

My main goal is to tell a story.

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.

Music is structure out of Chaos

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