I Read To See Myself In Other

The Dumbing Down Of The Country Reflects Itself On Broadway. The Shows Get Dumber, And The Public Gets Used To Them.

I Get Some Flak For And Some Resistance From Colleagues For Because I'm Interested In Storytelling. I Mean What I Like About Songwriting Is Songs Used To Tell A Story.

You Have Two Kinds Of Shows On Broadway - Revivals And The Same Kind Of Musicals Over And Over Again, All Spectacles. You Get Your Tickets For 'the Lion King' A Year In Advance, And Essentially A Family Comes As If To A Picnic, And They Pass On To Their Children The Idea That That's What The Theater Is - A Spectacular Musical You See Once A Year, A Stage Version Of A Movie. It Has Nothing To Do With Theater At All. It Has To Do With Seeing What Is Familiar. We Live In A Recycled Culture.

Art Is Craft, Not Inspiration.

Anything You Do, Let It Come From You. Then It Will Be New.