I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

Every day a little death.

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.

Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.

Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.

Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.