I'm musical in the sense that I can write a song, but I realised when I was learning the piano as a child that there were people who played it so much better.

Retirement' is a dirty word. Luckily, I can carry on working until I drop, provided I retain my mental abilities.

The film musical is a very strange animal. They can bite you in the back, or they can do very well for you.

I never try to predict what will happen to any project, ever. There are so many factors. Does the public like the subject matter, the way you handle it?

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.

It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.

What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.