If you had asked me, in the days of me dreaming about what would happen in the future, who I would want to write my first original musical, it would hands-down have been Pasek and Paul.
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I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.
Paul McCartney would be the end all, be all. To work with Paul would just be amazing.
I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.
I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.
I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try to write songs like Neil Finn, or we would try to write songs like Ray Davies, or we would try to write songs like Glenn Tilbrook.
Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.
When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.
I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
My dream collaboration would probably be Sam Smith.
I'd love to a duet with Luther Vandross.