Gotta watch out for directors.

I read to see myself in other people's lives.

Every day a little death.

Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.

Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.

Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.