Music is structure out of Chaos

Writing is a form of mischief.

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

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.

Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

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