Success is always something that you have to recover from.

If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.

Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you.

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.