Music is structure out of Chaos

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

Content dictates form and style.

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

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