Writing is a form of mischief.

It's age. It's a diminution of energy and the worry that there are no new ideas. It's an increasing lack of confidence. I'm not the only one. I've checked with other people.

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man.

For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.

My main goal is to tell a story.

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.

Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.