Content Dictates Form And Style.

The Worst Thing You Can Do Is Censor Yourself As The Pencil Hits The Paper. You Must Not Edit Until You Get It All On Paper. If You Can Put Everything Down, Stream-of-consciousness, You'll Do Yourself A Service.

I Was Never Much Of A Reader. I'm A Slow Reader, Which Is Unusual, Because I'm So Into Language And I Love Words So Much. But It's Hard For Me To Read.

After The Rodgers And Hammerstein Revolution, Songs Became Part Of The Story, As Opposed To Just Entertainments In Between Comedy Scenes.

I Fell Into Lyric Writing Because Of Music. I Backed Into It.

Hit Songs Did Not Come Out Of Musicals. Pop-rock Was Creating The Hits. There Were Very Few Songs That Made The Charts Out Of Any Broadway Musical.