The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.

It's pleasanter to work in the country, where you can wander out among the trees. But I don't get as much work done. In the city you don't want to leave the room because there's all that chaos going on.

My main goal is to tell a story.

Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.

Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.

The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.