I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.

I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.

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

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

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

Nice is different than good.

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.