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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry.

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.

The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie that bombs. But in records you better have that hit or else it's 'See you later.'

Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.

The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

Post-production is kind of the death of hope. The money has been spent. The grand ideas are either there or they're not there. So music oftentimes has to compensate if there are issues, or it has to stay out of the way if the movie is working really well.

The more people who come from musical backgrounds and go into promotion, production, songwriting, A&R, plus get their business head together, the better. They'll not only understand the business aspect, they'll also have a true passion and ear for how quality is represented musically.

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.