Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.

Music is structure out of Chaos

I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.

My main goal is to tell a story.

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.

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.

Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.