I certainly wanted my name in lights. I wanted my name on a marquee. I wanted recognition on Broadway.
From Stephen Sondheim
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.
There's something inimical about the camera and song.
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
I would have been a geologist.
Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.
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