Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

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.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

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

By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.

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