Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.

I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.

I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.

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.

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.

I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.