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.
Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!
The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.
It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.
What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.