My parents got divorced and military school gave me a structure. A lot of kids my age were children of divorced parents. They didn't know what to do with the kids.

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.

Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.