If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.

I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.

I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!

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

In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.