Every day a little death.

Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player." That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player." How can you tell?" It's PIPING hot!" Then blow on it first!

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.

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

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.

It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.