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My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.

I am the kind of person that wants to get up in front of crowds of strangers and perform monologues. To each their own.

My musician friends could always practice what they loved doing, but I can't go on a street corner and start reciting a monologue. Acting is very collaborative, and you always need other people with you - mainly an audience.

I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing my own, and then I started selling them to other actors.

I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

I started writing more with my voice in mind.

If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.

I wasn't planning on doing musicals, but that's how I started.