I Really Don't Want To

If People Have Split Views About Your Work, I Think It's Flattering. I'd Rather Have Them Feel Something About It Than Dismiss It.

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.

Two Of The Hardest Words In The Language To Rhyme Are Life And Love. Of All Words!

In The Rodgers And Hammerstein Generation, Popular Hits Came Out Of Shows And Movies.

I Didn't Really Want To Write Just Lyrics, But I Wanted To Meet Leonard Bernstein. Music Was Always The First Reason I Was Writing Songs.