"So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work."

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"So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work."

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"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."

Service,

"My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity."

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"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."

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"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."

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"I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra."

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

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"One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there."

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