That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.

My main goal is to tell a story.

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.

For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.