I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.

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

Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

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

I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.