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A lot of what I've done has a rock edge, even going back to 'Little Shop of Horrors.'

Of my Disney material, 'Tangled' is my most pop-oriented.

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The reality is that people need to be coaxed toward a musical. They need to understand why it's a musical.

Most successful musicals need to attach themselves to something bigger than themselves, a concept that will make people feel immediately connected to it.

Every time I play 'Part of Your World,' a whole part of my life comes back to me. It's just inescapable - it was an innocent time, and a sense of discovery that we were all involved with.

I think the thing that strikes you when you come back to 'The Little Mermaid' after all of these years is the simplicity and innocence. That's in the look of it, and that's in the sound of it.

A lot of the projects I've been involved with have been my babies, and I'm not going to give my baby to anyone else.

I have the ability to clear the decks and focus on what's happening in the moment. And I get to spend my life doing what I love to do.

I'm not interested in being the producer of somebody else's song.

TV is a medium where I've been an outsider for the most part.

There's such a rich trove of unheard Howard Ashman lyrics that we're so blessed to draw from.

For a while now, I try to ignore the hoopla, because if you buy into that, you have to buy into the criticism. All you can do is put your work out there and move on; you just never know...

When 'Newsies' first came out, it just crash-landed with a thud; it won a Razzie for worst song of the year, and I felt such embarrassment. Fast-forward, and it's a hit on Broadway, and I win a Tony for the...

My favorite thing is a brand-new project from scratch because you really never know how they're going to come to life. Going back for the third and fourth time to old ones is very gratifying, but it's not my favorite...

I'm very proud of 'Will the Sun Ever Shine Again.' That was a song written very close to the 9/11 event.

I love 'The Gospel Truth,' the song that opened up 'Hercules.' I thought that song was a lot of fun, and I really enjoyed producing that and writing that.

The Disney tradition - number one, it's a great American classic tradition - and it's something where you don't want to go over certain lines. You want to poke fun, but you don't want to poke fun in a way...

Whether it's animated, whether it's live-action, whether it's Broadway, whether it's television, a musical is a musical is a musical. So, pretty much, you approach the songs in pretty much the same way.

The act of writing a song involves a degree of letting go of yourself, and that's very much being a child.

What I look for in a partner is a skill, a voice of their own so I have a strength to go up against. They definitely have to be able to get out of their own way. I can't take...

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