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

Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!

I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.

My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.

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

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.