Stay a child while you can be a child.

You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.

When I listen to my work, I think, what's so inflammatory about it? It's not really that dissonant. A lot of people who used to hate my stuff have come round to it.

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

If the end is right, it justifies the beans!

Art is craft, not inspiration.

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