Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

Just remember, Someone is on your side (our side) Someone else is not While we're seeing our side Maybe we forgot: they are not alone. No one is alone.

Content dictates form and style.

It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.

No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or easy but something I never knew. Love within reason, that isn't love and I learned that from you.