You Move Just A Finger,

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

When I Listen To My Work, I Think, What's So Inflammatory About It? It's Not Really That Dissonant. A Lot Of People Who Used To Hate My Stuff Have Come Round To It.

Work Is What You Do For Others, Liebchen. Art Is What You Do For Yourself.

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.

By The Time I Get Through Writing A Score, I Know The Book Better Than The Book Writer Does, Because I've Examined Every Word, And Questioned The Book Writer On Every Word.