The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.

Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.

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.

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

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

Slotted spoons don't hold much soup.

You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.