There's something inimical about the camera and song.

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

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.

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

I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.

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

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.