My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
From Stephen Sondheim
Gotta watch out for directors.
By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.
When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.
In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.
One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.
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