Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.

Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for 'The Lion King' a year in advance, and essentially a family comes as if to a picnic, and they pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is - a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar. We live in a recycled culture.

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.

My main goal is to tell a story.

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.