I Really Don't Want To

I Do Not Hope For What I Cannot Have! I Do Not Cling To Things I Cannot Keep!

Making Lyrics Feel Natural, Sit On Music In Such A Way That You Dont Feel The Effort Of The Author, So That They Shine And Bubble And Rise And Fall, Is Very, Very Hard To Do. Whereas You Can Sit At The Piano And Just Play And Feel Youre Making Art.

You Have Two Kinds Of Shows On Broadway - Revivals And The Same Kind Of Musicals Over And Over Again, All Spectacles. You Get Your Tickets For 'the Lion King' A Year In Advance, And Essentially A Family Comes As If To A Picnic, And They Pass On To Their Children The Idea That That's What The Theater Is - A Spectacular Musical You See Once A Year, A Stage Version Of A Movie. It Has Nothing To Do With Theater At All. It Has To Do With Seeing What Is Familiar. We Live In A Recycled Culture.

I'm Sure Many Writers Have These Strange, Tiny Little Habits.

My Mother Wanted Me Off Her Hands. She Was A Working Woman. She Designed Clothes, And She Was A Celebrity Collector. It's My Mother's Ambition To Be A Celebrity.