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

I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or easy but something I never knew. Love within reason, that isn't love and I learned that from you.

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

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