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Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you don't feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit...

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a...

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I happen to like movies and plays about dislikeable people as long as I get to know why they are what they are.

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

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.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget...

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

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