Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

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.

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

I read to see myself in other people's lives.

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.

I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!