You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

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

I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.

I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.

Sometimes people leave you Halfway through the wood Others may decieve you You decide what's good You decide alone But no one is alone

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.