I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.

Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.

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.

Only capitalists get photographers.

The situation's fraught, Fraughter than I thought, With horrible, impossible possibilities!