Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size.

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

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

I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.

There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit and it goes by the name of London. At the top of the hole sit the privileged few Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo turning beauty to filth and greed... I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders, for the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru but there's no place like London!

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.