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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

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I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

Nice is different than good.

The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?

My idea of heaven is not writing.

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

I think 'lunch' is one of the funniest words in the world.

When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.

My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't know people had mummies and daddies who would give them milk and cookies after school. I just thought everybody lived on Central Park West and...

Every single song I've ever written is sung by a character created by somebody else. Some might have a jaundiced view of love, some don't. But none of these songs is me singing - not a single one.

I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B dramatically.

I'm always conscious of what I'm writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every line in the song.

When I'm writing a song, I try to be the character.

Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of nearly all the great scenes in all the great plays, from 'Oedipus' to 'Hamlet.'

I was a mathematician by nature, and still am - I just knew I didn't want to be a mathematician. So I decided not to take any mathematics courses.

Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!

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