Just remember, Someone is on your side (our side) Someone else is not While we're seeing our side Maybe we forgot: they are not alone. No one is alone.

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

Every day a little death.

By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.