I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

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

It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.

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.