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Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.

I can't get into the underlying psyche of someone like Robin Williams, but he was at that level of fame where he was somewhat self-protective.

I have a team who I respect immensely, so if they have opinions, I'm interested in hearing them.

I see my songs and shows almost like a mosaic - part of a bigger picture.

When I was younger, I'd get very invested in things. It's a hard lesson to learn, but you have to know that if you want to find gold, you've got to love the process of digging.

For a brief period, I had a gentleman's farm in Pennsylvania, but even then, I kept a place in New York.

I was always a composer since I was a kid, but the BMI Workshop is where the networking really all stems from. So many writers and influences and ways of communicating all sprang out of the time I was a...

As a kid, I loved classical music. Composers like Beethoven were like rock stars to me. Then there were the real rock stars: The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan.

There's plenty of examples of films where they're greenlit to move forward, and they want to get X actor. And they don't get X actor, so they go with Y, and it doesn't turn out to be as good of...

Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.

Music is a gestalt. Songs are a life force and they have specific vocabulary to them. You hear a few notes, and they take you into a world of association.

I have lots of personal feelings of my own, but at this stage in my life and career, I'm very much driven by assignment.

It's writing songs within the structure of telling a story, so it becomes a platform for diverse songwriting, for a writing process that's broader than just figuring out a song. You're also dealing with always pushing the story forward, with...

The job, when you write film underscore, is to be ignored. That comes with the gig, no question about it.

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

Whatever I gain from writing lyrics, I feel I lose a little bit for the musical aspect by having that lyrical burden on me. But when I'm liberated from worrying about the words, frankly, I feel I'm a better composer.

Most of my collaborations, certainly post - Howard Ashman but even with Howard, are music first.

My first success was 'Little Shop of Horrors,' and I had been working for years on jingles.

There was a jingle house called Lucas/McFaul in New York, and they called me 'the demo king.' I almost never had the big final - in jingles, you have the big final, and then you sing on it, and you...

Truth be told, of course, what I enjoy most is reinventing myself and doing new projects where I work in new genres, or I get to find what the voice of a particular musical is.

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