It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.

There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.

I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.

Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and rewarding them with a lot of commercial success, has.