Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

I've always liked puzzles, since I was a kid. I like party games, silly games. I loved chess. I enjoy jigsaw puzzles, but I'm not particularly visual.

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

Writing is a form of mischief.

I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.