So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.

When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.

Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.