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

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

I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.

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.

I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.

If I got involved with the chat rooms and Facebook and everything - I would probably never leave. That's why I don't do it. I literally don't do it. At all.

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