The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell.

If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go, what you'll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey.

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.

I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.

I've always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.

I will find my wayI can go the distanceI'll be there somedayIf I can be strongI know every mile will be worth my whileI would go most anywhere to feel like I belong

Life has played her like a cat weaving between her legs, pretending to be tame, friendly, before sinking its claws into soft, vulnerable flesh.

No relationship, Chrissy, I don't care how truly, madly, deeply it is...No relationship survives on hope. It's forgiveness that keeps it alive.

In a real love, mistakes are not consider because they are forgiven and forgotten.

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.

I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.

I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say.

I am very lucky to have people who care about me and care about my music. I think it would be irresponsible to not show them as much love back as they show me.

Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

War is at best barbarism.